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applegrove

(118,460 posts)
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:49 AM Apr 2020

Two-thirds of US voters back mail-in presidential election in November despite Trump's objections

Two-thirds of US voters back mail-in presidential election in November despite Trump’s objections

President has called postal voting ‘corrupt’ and ‘horrible’

Andrew Naughtie @andrewnaughtie1 day ago 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-mail-voting-november-election-trump-objection-a9479876.html?utm_source=reddit.com

"SNIP......

A new poll has found that close to two-thirds of the US electorate are in favour of conducting November’s presidential election entirely by mail.

The findings come in spite of many Republican leaders’ insistence that mail-in voting is an invitation to rampant electoral fraud ​— an idea lately propagated by the president himself.

In the poll, commissioned by The Wall Street Journal and NBC, the people polled were asked whether they favoured changing election laws to allow everyone to vote by mail in general; those who said no were then asked if they favoured changing the law for this year alone “given the concern that the coronavirus may still be contagious this fall”.

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Two-thirds of US voters back mail-in presidential election in November despite Trump's objections (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
K&R Blue Owl Apr 2020 #1
bull bisquits it's conducive to rampant election fraud sprinkleeninow Apr 2020 #2

sprinkleeninow

(20,211 posts)
2. bull bisquits it's conducive to rampant election fraud
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 02:22 AM
Apr 2020

Amy Klobuchar was on earlier tonite saying * voted by mail from the comfort and convenience of his home.

Don't get me started...

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