GOP scrambles to organize early and mail voting despite Trump's attacks
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Source: Washington Post
March 28, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections. In February, he told Michigan voters that mail-in voting is totally corrupt. He later told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that if you have mail-in balloting, you automatically have fraud.
The ballots are a disaster, he said earlier this month to British TV host Nigel Farage, without offering evidence and despite having voted by mail himself in recent elections. Any time the mail is involved, youre going to have cheating. Its too bad people dont say it. They dont want to say it.
That message is complicating plans by officials at Trumps campaign and the Republican National Committee to orchestrate aggressive efforts in key battleground states to persuade voters to cast their ballots early and by mail. Party officials say the efforts are crucial to win the election.
In an interview, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said the party would spend considerable money he would not say how much to encourage voters to vote by mail and help collect ballots, a practice known as ballot harvesting that is legal in some states but that Trump has decried. Weve got to get every one of our voters to vote, no matter the method, Whatley said. We want people to use mail-in voting where it is legal. We want people to ballot harvest where its legal. We want to comply with the laws in every state.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/28/trump-mail-early-voting-republicans/
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flying_wahini
(7,735 posts)And why is DeJoy still there?
durablend
(7,678 posts)Your leader said vote by mail is FRAUD!