Trump tweeted several times on Monday criticizing vote-by-mail plans that numerous states have implemented so that voters concerned about the coronavirus infection can submit their ballots from home
“If people can go out and protest, riot, break into stores and create all sorts of havoc, they can also go out and VOTE – and keep our Election Honest,” Trump wrote. “With millions of mail-in ballots being sent out, who knows where they are going, and to whom?”Trump, who himself has submitted absentee ballots through the mail, has for weeks stoked fears among his supporters that Democrats will abuse the vote-by-mail process in November’s election.
Biden’s campaign said that Trump was forcing people to choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote. “Our campaign has sent letters to Twitter and Facebook demanding that this disinformation, which seeks to undermine faith in our electoral process, gets taken down immediately.”
The social media companies are under pressure to try to police disinformation in political campaigns.Trump told Politico in an interview published on Friday that expanded mail-in voting could cost him re-election.
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