Trump the hypocrite in chief requested a mail in ballot while slamming them and trying to sabotage the USPS.
President Trump requests mail-in ballot for upcoming Florida primary, despite rhetoric
Updated 9:08 pm EDT Aug. 13, 2020
For the second time as a Palm Beach County voter, President Donald Trump has requested a vote-by-mail ballot ahead of Florida's primary election on Tuesday.
And the president who has just spent the past few weeks
excoriating mail-in voting has less than a week to cast it.
The request for himself and first lady Melania Trump came Wednesday, the Palm Beach County elections website shows.
The ballot would have been picked up, not mailed to his Palm Beach private club, Mar-a-Lago, because the deadline to send out ballots has passed.
Now it must travel to Washington, D.C., where the president and first lady can vote and then return before 7 p.m. Tuesday, when all mail-in ballots must be submitted.
The election primarily involves choices for Democratic and Republican Party voters for such seats as county commission, Port of Palm Beach, state Legislature and Congress. However, the ballot also features judicial races and the elections supervisor’s seat, which are open to all voters regardless of party affiliation.
The president and first lady can mark their choices for seven races, including for a congressional seat held by liberal Democrat Lois Frankel.
On the Republican ballot, the Trumps could choose from an array of candidates, including avid Trump supporter and conservative provocateur Laura Loomer, who has been banned from Twitter and raised more than $1 million for her campaign.
Trump has blasted vote-by-mail — particularly universal vote-by-mail, where elections offices automatically send ballots to all registered voters, rather than allowing the onus to be on the voter to request a mail ballot.
In tweets, he lamented without evidence rampant fraud with mail-in ballots and even suggested the November election be delayed over coronavirus concerns. More voters are opting to vote by mail to avoid voting in person.
Poll:
Half of Americans fear difficulties voting in November election
Last week,
Trump singled out Florida as an exception, tweeting that his supporters there should request an absentee ballot and vote by mail because the election system in the Republican-run battleground state is "Safe and Secure, Tried and True."
Trump has
opposed financing for the U.S. Postal Service, which he linked Thursday to his dislike of mail-in voting.
"They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump said on Fox Business Network, adding, "If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it."
Florida lawmakers changed the legal wording from “absentee” to “vote-by-mail” in 2016 to alleviate confusion, since voters weren’t required to be away from home to cast their ballot.
Twitter: @mannahhorse
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Originally Published 7:38 pm EDT Aug. 13, 2020
**Updated 9:08 pm EDT Aug. 13, 2020**
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