U.S. Postal Service warns Pennsylvania that mail-in ballots may be delivered too late.
But President Donald Trump believes the American mail-in voting tradition, with roots as far back as the Civil War, invites fraud. There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States, according to numerous investigations and studies.— $3.6 billion has been proposed by congressional Democrats — for the Postal Service.
"Now, 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 on Thursday."But 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."Carts of small packages wait to be scanned and moved through the mail system at the U.S.
He recommended that completed ballots be mailed no later than Oct. 27 so they can make the Election Day deadline and be counted. The filing by state officials calls that a new development that would suggest the judge in the case needs to approve a three-day deadline extension for completed ballots to be returned so they may be counted.
"Respondents do not expect that such an extension would create any significant delay in the reporting of Pennsylvania’s election results," it states.delay the election"Are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent, they’ll be fixed, they’ll be rigged?" Trump said July 30."And everyone is looking at it, and a lot of people are saying, 'You know, that probably will happen.
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