With one of the most important elections just weeks away, President Donald Trump Thursday voiced concerns during a campaign rally in regards to unsolicited ballots and their viability.
He brought this concern to light while also in North Carolina Wednesday. Asking voters to go to the polls in person after they have mailed their ballot to verify that their vote has been counted. Almost suggesting that postal ballots are susceptible to being thwarted or manipulated. In addition, his plea as well as reasoning would be no different in Pennsylvania.
“Sign your mail on the ballots, okay. You sign it, you send it and you have to follow it,” Trump said. “And if on election day or early voting that [vote] is not tabulated or counted, you are going to vote. And then if for some reason after that, it shouldn’t take that long, [the mail-in vote] arrives, they won’t be able to tabulate it because you [already] voted.”
“You have to make sure your vote counts, because the only way they are going to beat us is by doing that kind of thing. I’m trying to be nice,” Trump continued.
The president expressed concern about universal voting by mail, which he called, “unsolicited ballots.” He has repeatedly raised uneasiness about said ballots, saying they could lead to an increase in voter fraud.
“Requested is fine because that’s when you are asking for [the ballot] and you want it, then you send the necessary documentation and you get the ballot and fill it out… But you can’t [do] all this with unsolicited ones… Unsolicited means you’re sitting there … they throw these things in your face, and the [voter] lists are inaccurate, and dead people and dogs have received ballots, they have,” stated Trump.
“And they know I’m right, and they all know I’m right, and they say I’m right behind closed doors. It is a shame what they do to our country,” He continued. “It is really unfair because our people are enthusiastic, they are going to vote, everyone is going to vote.”
Trump’s re-election campaign recently sued New Jersey, Nevada and Montana for expanding access to voting by mail.
