President Trump said Wednesday that if the voting system is working properly, someone who sends in a ballot by mail and then tries to vote in person at a later time would not be allowed to do so because their vote would already be counted.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that voters in North Carolina should test their state's election system by voting once by mail, then trying to vote a second time in person.
Voting twice in the same election is illegal, and doing so deliberately is an example of the very kind of voter fraud that Trump has spent months railing against. In North Carolina, it is a felony"with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one time, or to induce another to do so, in the same primary or election, or to vote illegally at any primary or election.
"They'll go out and they'll vote, and they'll have to go check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way, because if it tabulates then they won't be able to do that," he said when asked about his confidence in North Carolina's absentee system. "That's the way it is, and that's what they should do.
"It seems to me what he's saying is, he's trying to make the point that the ability to monitor this system is not good, and if it was so good, if you tried to vote a second time, you would be caught," Barr said.
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