President Trump, whose campaign has tried to thwart mail-in voting, has requested an absentee ballot that will allow him to cast a Florida primary ballot via the U.S. Postal Service.
It would be the second time Trump and the first lady have requested to vote by mail as residents of Florida, where they call the Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago home.. The deadline to request absentee ballots was Saturday. The ballots must be returned by 7 p.m. on the day of the election.
Palm Beach County started an early voting program Aug. 3 that allows voters to also use"secure" drop boxes. The president has claimed that mail-in voting, used in the United States since the Civil War, invites fraud. There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States, according to numerous investigations and studies.
Trump has so far resisted congressional Democrats' efforts to add billions of dollars to U.S. Postal Service budget to help fund the extra work needed to process more voting by mail as a result of the
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