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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.President Trump has taken kindly to surrounding voter fraud for now, but on Monday he put forward three of his most brazen suppression efforts surrounding the practice of voting by mail:Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history - unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One &amp; World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)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. With millions of mail-in ballots being sent out, who knows where they are going, and to whom?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)As is common for presidential tweets these days, these missives are both incorrect and show a great deal of hypocrisy. already allow the kind of voting Trump considers dangerous, and in these states there have been levels of tampering and fraud. As for foreign interference, election law expert Rick Hasen NBC News that interfering with mail ballots — compared to the of hacking in-person voting machines — would be “ridiculous,” considering the of safeguards built into the process. “They would have to have accurate voter information including voter identifying information, such as signatures or the last four of people’s driver license numbers,” Hasen told NBC News. “There are just so many things that would make it obvious that these ballots would be fraudulent that such a scheme would be easily caught and deterred.”There’s further evidence that Trump is only feigning concern in an attempt to suppress votes: his campaign and his administration is filled with mail-in voters – and he’s even done it himself. Here are the most prominent Trump allies who have voted by mail in recent elections.At a coronavirus press briefing on April 8, the president voting by mail “a very dangerous thing for this country because they are cheaters.” Shortly after his comment, a reporter reminded him that he voted by mail in the 2018 midterm. “Well sure, I could vote by mail,” Trump responded, explaining away the dissonance by saying he wasn’t able to get down to his primary residence in Florida to do so — despite visiting his golf course in the state at least since becoming president.With the coronavirus restricting Trump to the White House for most of the spring, the president and the first lady also by mail in the 2020 primary in Florida.While the vice-president has stayed mostly silent as his boss campaigns against mail-in ballots, Pence did engage in the practice for the April primary. According to , Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, used the Indiana governor’s mansion — where the pair haven’t lived since 2016 — as their address, which is perfectly legal since they have not registered to vote in Washington, D.C.According to the , the presidential advisers made an effort to vote by absentee ballot in the 2017 New York City mayoral election: Jared Kushner requested a mail-in ballot but did not send one in, while Ivanka Trump sent hers in past the deadline. President Trump, too, may have had trouble with his mail-in ballot in the 2017 mayoral election, as he put the wrong month for his birthday.The White House press secretary defended Trump’s decision to vote by mail despite his public condemnations of the process, saying that he was excused from his own standard because “the president is, after all, the president, which means he’s here in Washington. He’s unable to cast his vote down in Florida, his state of residence.”Shortly after her comment in April, the Tampa Bay Times that McEnany, a Florida native, had voted absentee in every election she had participated in since 2010. In a statement provided to the paper, she said: “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. President Trump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud.” However, Florida — a state with a significant seasonal population — does not require residents to provide any reason when they request a mail-in ballot.In an with the New York Times Magazine this month, Attorney General William Barr said that he was “real worried about” the potential of foreign governments interfering with mail-in ballots. Despite this worry, Barr has voted absentee in Virginia in 2012 and 2019, the Washington Post.Three more repeat offenders of this completely healthy democratic process are the president’s secretary of Commerce, director of the United States National Economic Council, and Education secretary. Ross, 82, has in 15 of the last 15 elections, including the Florida primary in March, while Kudlow, 72, has voted by mail in 13 of the last 20 elections. DeVos, meanwhile, has absentee voting status in Michigan.Other Trump administration staffers who have voted absentee include Kellyanne Conway and Alex Azar.The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee has shared her own criticisms of voting by mail, Democratic bills to expand absentee voting amid a pandemic an effort that “vastly expand[s] opportunities for fraud and weaken confidence in our elections.” In May, after McDaniel sued the state of California for providing all voters in the state with mail-in ballots for November, her own voting history was made public:RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel repeatedly voted by mail before leading California mail voting lawsuit, according to voting records obtained by — Igor Derysh (@IgorDerysh)The president’s current campaign manager did not vote for the president in 2016: “I was in New York working to elect Donald Trump and encountered a series of problems receiving my absentee ballot from Texas and missed the deadline,” Parscale CBS News last week. 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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.President Trump has taken kindly to surrounding voter fraud for now, but on Monday he put forward three of his most brazen suppression efforts surrounding the practice of voting by mail:Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history - unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One &amp; World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL...

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