Donald Trump himself votes by mail.
Washington:
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that a massive switch to postal voting in the November presidential election could cause so many problems that officials may have to re-vote.
Trump has repeatedly said without proof that a move to universal postal voting – which most states have not offered to do – would lead to fraud in the Nov. 3 election, when he takes on the challenger Democrat Joe Biden, who currently holds a substantial lead in the audience. opinion polls.
Trump does not have the power to postpone an election. A “overhaul” of national elections has never taken place in the more than 200 years that the United States has held elections, including during the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the two world wars.
“It’ll end up being a rigged election or they’ll never come out with a result,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “They will have to start over, and nobody wants to.”
Up to half of the ballots in the November election could be cast by mail due to America’s coronavirus crisis, election experts say. This represents about one in four votes cast in the mail in 2016.
Trump himself votes by mail.
As with other forms of voting, documented cases of mail fraud are extremely rare. But Trump repeated on Tuesday an allegation he had made in recent months that postal voting would lead to massive electoral fraud.
U.S. states are holding presidential elections, and most plan to send only mail-in ballots for the November election to voters who request them.
A handful of states regularly hold elections with what’s known as universal postal voting, in which each voter receives a ballot by mail. A few other states, including California and Nevada, are planning to send ballots to all voters for the November election due to the health crisis.
“The absentee is great but universal is going to be a disaster,” Trump said.
Late last month, Trump pitched the idea of delaying the election, a notion that was immediately rejected by Democrats and his fellow Republican Congressmen.
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