The day before publicly opposing funding to accommodate an expected surge in Americans voting by mail in this year’s presidential election, President Donald Trump requested a mail-in ballot to vote in Florida’s upcoming primary.
The elections website for Palm Beach County, Fla., where Trump is registered to vote, shows that mail-in ballots were requested for the president and first lady Melania Trump on Wednesday. The news was first reported by USA Today.
The ballots, according to the county’s supervisor of elections, would have to be picked up in person as the deadline has already passed for them to be mailed. Unlike some states where ballots can be post-marked by election day in order to be counted, the Trumps must return theirs by next Tuesday’s primary date.
Trump railed against voting-by-mail on Thursday, saying he opposes crucial funding for the U.S. Postal Service as part of an effort to discourage Americans from voting by mail in November.
The president has repeatedly demonized mail-in voting as governors across the country have sought to expand it amid the coronavirus pandemic, but has previously […]
Florida is a heavily republican state, with a governor that is a synchophant of trumps. Of course republicans should vote by mail there! What is so alarming is not only the blatant hipocrasy of trump, but the infantile and transparent corruption: vote by mail in a heavily republican state, but it’s “fraud” in another state, like say, New York or California, and hence, he’ll do anything to keep people from voting by mail, regardless of the dangers of coronavirus. Furthermore, what he is afraid of, and how obvious can you get, is that we may have an honest election if people can vote by mail, because that is the only way that the ballots cannot be electronically tampered with.
I agree, Lauren, we need to all vote from home by mail.