Trump Says People Should Vote Twice

[COL Mustard]

Once in person, once by mail, to test the system. Un-belucking-fievable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/09/02/trump-biden-live-updates/?hpid=hp_no-name_election-luf%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo

[iemitsu]

1. Let republicans try this and see how much jail time they get.

[Gothmog]

3. I helped get a trump supporter arrested for trying to vote twice back in 2016

I was in the voter protection war room and an election judge called me and asked if trying to vote twice was against the law. A trump supporter insisted that he had the right to vote twice. We had a room full of lawyers and fed the election judge with the provision of the Texas Election Code that made it a crime to vote twice. This idiot was arrested and this arrest made the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-000002-percent-of-all-the-ballots-cast-in-the-2016-election-were-fraudulent/

A man in Texas who voted twice. Phillip Cook was arrested on Election Day after voting twice. He claimed to be an employee of Trump's campaign who was testing the security of the electoral system. He wasn't an employee of the campaign — and the polling location's security worked perfectly well, it seems.

[dewsgirl]

4. I remember reading about this.

[Gothmog]

2. Please do not do this. This would be a crime.

Link to tweet

[SeattleVet]

5. Every tRump voter should try this!

When they are caught their ballots will be invalidated for this election, and they will probably lose their right to vote for the rest of their lives.

Sounds like a win/win to me!

Yeah, let's see just how efficient the various fraud detection and prevention mechanisms are - especially in (currently) red states!

[TheRealNorth]

6. Isn't it a crime to encourage criminal activity?

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. Not for a dictator.

[struggle4progress]

15. This particular attempt to induce seems to be a Class I felony under NC law

[SamKnause]

7. I hope all the Trump voters try this little stunt.

They will be charged with voter fraud and arrested.

Please do this Trump lovers.

[Le Roi de Pot]

8. Cant do that ( At least in NJ) - Here's why

Once you register for a Mail in Ballot - you cant vote in person - except provisionally.

If for some reason - say you did not receive a ballot or forgot to mail it in - you can vote provisionally. The ballot goes inside a sealed envelope that goes inside a second envelope with your name/address etc - That goes into a different pile.

Provisional Ballots are not counted by Default ( Absentee /Mail in ballots are). If the margin of victory is greater than the number of provisional ballots - then those votes have go through the 'process' - check if the person was registered to vote - has not already cast a Mail in ballot ..

you get the idea.

The election system is not stupid. Over the couple hundred years - politicians would have tried every crooked idea.

[texasfiddler]

9. Will Trump pay the legal fees?

[Ilsa]

11. Isn't encouraging people to commit felonies a crime? nt

[moondust]

12. Be prepared.

I kind of expect some Dump supporters, U.S./Russian/other, to try flooding USPS with carbon copied ballots if only to give Dump an excuse to say "I told you so! It's rigged! I won!" and drag it out like he does the courts and everything else. I don't know what all USPS and/or precincts can do to be ready for this and other dirty tricks but I hope they're prepared for the worst.

[struggle4progress]

13. NCGS 163-237(d)

... Any person attempting to aid and abet fraud in connection with any absentee votecast or to be cast, under the provisions of this Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor ... https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_163.html

[struggle4progress]

14. NCGS 163-275

Any person who shall, in connection with any primary, general or special election held in this State, do any of the acts or things declared in this section to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a Class I felony. It shall be unlawful ...

(7) For any person with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one time, or to induce another to do so, in the same primary or election, or to vote illegally at any primary or election ...

https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_163.html

It seems that the President has just committed a Class I felony under NC law