President Trump has argued that mail-in ballots are frequently fraudulent. While there is slightly more fraud in mail-voting than in-person voting, experts say, both can be done safely and securely. In all instances, election fraud is extremely rare.
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"Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, because they're cheaters" said Trump, during Tuesday's daily White House briefing."They're fraudulent in many cases." He was responding to a question about Wisconsin, which proceeded with in-person voting Tuesday despite objections that the election should move to all mail-in ballots.
"Where there is fraud in the system, it really seems to be in mail balloting," said Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico."There's some, there's not a lot. I think there's a little bit."
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