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President Trump on Thursday evening broadened his attack on widespread mail-in voting, warning that it could delay the results of the presidential election.“Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!” .Hours earlier, Trump suggested that Election Day be delayed from Nov. 3 so people can “securely and safely vote” during the coronavirus pandemic — only to be“Do I want to see a date change? No. But I don’t want to see a crooked election,” Trump told reporters at an evening press conference.“I don’t want to delay. I want to have the election. But I also don’t want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn’t mean anything.”Trump said, “our country will be a laughingstock all over the world because everyone knows it does not work… Stupid people may not know it. And some people don’t want to talk about it. But they know.”Trump has for weeks argued that if states mail ballots to all voters, they will be “harvested” by Democrats, despite few prosecutions for voter fraud in recent years. He also says foreign countries may forge ballots.Trump’s claim that results will be delayed is a widely held fear in Washington, with officials and journalists dreading a replay of recounts following the 2000 election, which was settled by the US Supreme Court after about five weeks.Last week, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany cited recent voting in New York using mail-in ballots, calling it a “dark omen” for November and an “absolute catastrophe.”“We are a month into the election after the voting, and we still don’t know who the winners are of some of those races,” McEnany said. “Gov. Cuomo decided that he would pre-pay postage for the ballots. And what that meant was that the Post Office didn’t put a postage stamp noting the date of the ballots… So for a month, they’re collecting ballots with no postmark date. And, in fact, what they found is 19 percent of ballots have been rejected in Queens, 28 percent rejected in Brooklyn.”On Monday July 27, the New York State Board of Elections primary election ballots, nearly five weeks after Election Day on June 23.

President Trump on Thursday evening broadened his attack on widespread mail-in voting, warning that it could delay the results of the presidential election.“Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!” .Hours earlier, Trump suggested that Election Day be delayed from Nov. 3 so people can “securely and safely vote” during the coronavirus pandemic — only to be“Do I want to see a date change? No. But I don’t want to see a crooked election,” Trump told reporters at an evening press conference.“I don’t want to delay. I want to have the...

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