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Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud

On Tuesday, President Trump made a series of claims about potential voter fraud after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and others. Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.

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Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud

What you need to know

- Trump falsely claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to "a Rigged Election." However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud. - Trump falsely claimed that California will send mail-in ballots to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there." In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots. - Five states already vote entirely by mail and all states offer some form of mail-in absentee voting, according to NBC News.

The Hill

@thehill

11時間

Trump blasts California over mail-in voting following Republican lawsuit hill.cm/4FO4sqH

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"Trump, who has increasingly leveled unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud in mail-in voting, zeroed in on California in a string of tweets Tuesday morning, two days after the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued [Governor Gavin] Newsom over his effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the coronavirus pandemic." — The Hill

Jennifer Jacobs

@JenniferJJacobs

14時間

Trump says mail-in voting system in California will be "substantially fraudulent," raising more questions about whether this is a voter suppression effort.

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

· 15時間

There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....

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Trump's claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and other fact checkers

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

10時間

Analysis: A review of Trump’s many unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud

Analysis | A review of Trump’s many unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud

After crying wolf for four years, no wolves.

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Trump's Tweets "are a refrain we’ve heard over and over from Trump over the past four years — a refrain that literally has never been substantiated." — Washington Post

CNN Politics

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12時間

Here's the real reason Donald Trump is attacking mail-in ballots | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza cnn.it/3enGE2e

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"[T]he sort of widespread election fraud that Trump is talking about is incredibly rare. In fact, there's just no significant evidence of intentional voter fraud on anything near the scale Trump and his allies allege." — CNN

Experts point out that mail-in voting is very rarely linked to fraud

Grace Segers

@Grace_Segers

14時間

1. Mail voting fraud is extremely rare, and some experts consider it to be safer than in-person voting because paper ballots can't be hacked. 2. Most studies find that voting by mail doesn't help one party over another. 3. President Trump voted by mail in the Florida primary.

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Donald J. Trump

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Rachel Schallom

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14時間

This is false. Over the last two decades, about 0.00006% of total vote-by-mail votes cast were fraudulent. fortune.com/2020/05/25/vot

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Donald J. Trump

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Others pointed out that mail-in ballots are used in other states

“Five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah — already vote entirely by mail, sending a ballot to registered voters. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, at least 21 other states allow some smaller elections, like school board contests, to be conducted by mail.” Beyond that, all states already offer absentee mail-in voting. — NBC News

NBC News

@NBCNews

4月13日

President Trump pushes false claims about mail-in vote fraud. Here are the facts.

Trump pushes false claims about mail-in vote fraud. Here are the facts.

The pandemic has ignited a partisan battle around the voting method, with Democrats increasingly embracing the idea as way to ensure a safe election.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

14時間

Five states, including deep red Utah, already conduct elections almost entirely by mail, and only evidence of mail-in election fraud Trump has been able to cite is a "pants on fire" lie vox.com/2020/4/8/21213

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Donald J. Trump

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Jennifer Bendery

@jbendery

14時間

Oregon has been voting *entirely* by mail since 1998. Gov. Kate Brown said it makes her blood boil to hear Trump’s fearmongering about fraud as it is “virtually nonexistent.” “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about." huffpost.com/entry/oregon-g

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Donald J. Trump

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80% of Nebraskans who voted in our May primary voted by mail. Voting by mail is secure. It's effective. It led to record turnout.

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"Nebraska's primary voters mostly steered clear of polling sites [earlier this month] while shattering the state record for absentee voting with nearly 400,000 mail-in ballots in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic." — Associated Press

Other issues with Trump's claim

Abby D. Phillip

@abbydphillip

14時間

The president keeps escalating his false claims about mail in voting. What evidence is there that “mail boxes will be robbed?” What does that even mean? And ballots are being sent to registered voters, not “anyone living in the state.”

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Donald J. Trump

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Sam Levine

@srl

13時間

This is false. California is not mailing a ballot to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there." The state is sending ballots to voters who are registered in California: gov.ca.gov/2020/05/08/gov

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Donald J. Trump

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Trump has repeatedly lied that illegal immigrants are voting en masse in CA. Now falsely saying CA is sending ballots to "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there." Sure doesn't seem like accidentally loose language.

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Background

"On May 8, Newsom signed the executive order that he said was intended to protect registered voters from the virus by giving them the option of voting by mail if they considered it too risky to brave potentially crowded polling stations to cast their ballot in the Nov. 3 general election." — ABC News

ABC News

@ABC

18時間

GOP groups have filed a federal lawsuit alleging California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to send mail-in ballots to every voter in the state is illegal.

GOP groups sue to block California Gov. Gavin Newsom's mail-in ballot order

Newsom claimed he signed the executive order for mail-in ballots to protect voters from COVID-19. Now GOP groups are suing to block it.

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The Hill

@thehill

5月9日

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: "I signed an executive order... that will allow every registered voter in the state of California to receive a mail-in ballot." hill.cm/rxXnVkF

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Ronna McDaniel

@GOPChairwoman

5月24日

I am pleased to announce that the RNC,

@NRCC

@CAGOP

just sued Gavin Newsom over his illegal election power grab. His radical plan is a recipe for disaster that would create more opportunities for fraud & destroy the confidence Californians deserve to have in their elections.

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President Trump, who has recently escalated his attacks on mail-in voting, stated outright today that he believes that the 2020 presidential election will be manipulated on.forbes.com/6016GDnvO

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The Christian Science Monitor

@csmonitor

5月13日

During the first in-person primary since Wisconsin's controversial election, Nebraska voters largely avoided polling stations. A record number of mail-in ballots brought victory to several candidates who have voiced opposition to President Trump.

With 400,000 mail-in ballots, Nebraska breaks voting record

Michigan officials are mailing absentee ballot applications to voters in accordance with an amendment to the state constitution approved in 2018. President Trump’s claim that this action was done “illegally” is false, according to CNN, NPR and others.

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No, Michigan’s decision to mail absentee ballot applications to voters isn’t illegal