Trump has claimed absentee voting is ripe for fraud although there is scant evidence of wrongdoing. Trump himself requested a mail-in ballot for Florida’s March GOP primary and he has voted absentee in previous elections.
President Trump on Wednesday threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are trying to make it easier and safer to vote during the coronavirus pandemic.
It was not clear what funds Trump was referencing. The states are paying for their election changes through coronavirus relief spending measures the president signed into law. “Trump has ‘gone Ukraine’ on Michigan and Nevada, threatening to cut off funding for their audacity to not make voters choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote,” California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat, said in a statement. “We will not allow our democracy to become a casualty of this pandemic.”
and says its main objection is to mailing ballots to all voters. Five states that use this method have had no significant voter fraud cases. California earlier this month said it woud mail ballots to all voters for November.stopped Democrats from mandating expanded mail and early voting
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