{"id":5252,"date":"2020-09-03T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:47:25","slug":"trump-says-north-carolina-voters-should-vote-twice-once-by-mail-once-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/trump-says-north-carolina-voters-should-vote-twice-once-by-mail-once-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says North Carolina voters should vote twice; once by mail, once in person"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves after returning to Washington from travel to Wilmington, North Carolina at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 2, 2020. REUTERS\/Leah Millis<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, let them send it in and let them go vote,\u201d Trump said in an interview with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, when asked about the security of mail-in votes. \u201cAnd if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won\u2019t be able to vote\u201d in person.<\/p>\n

Voting more than once in an election is illegal.<\/p>\n

Activists raised concerns over Trump\u2019s remarks, saying what he suggested was in violation of law and urging the public not to listen to his suggestion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCasting two ballots is illegal. Don\u2019t listen to the president\u201d, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election could be vulnerable to fraud, echoing an argument Trump has made to denounce the use of voting by mail.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously said the voting method is susceptible to large-scale fraud, though experts say voter fraud of any kind is extremely rare in the United States.<\/p>\n

Voting by mail is not new in the United States – nearly one in four voters cast presidential ballots in 2016 that way.<\/p>\n

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A record number of mail-in ballots are expected for the Nov. 3 election due to concerns about in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Trump has accused Democrats of trying to steal the election by pushing the use of mail-in voting. The re-election campaign of Trump has recently sued states like New Jersey and Nevada for expanding access to mail-in voting.<\/p>\n

Democrats have said Trump and fellow Republicans are attempting to suppress the vote to help their side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves after returning to Washington from travel to Wilmington, North Carolina at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 2, 2020. REUTERS\/Leah Millis \u201cSo, let them send it in and let them go vote,\u201d Trump said in an interview with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, when asked about the security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1780,2490,2440,2708,2706,2704],"class_list":{"0":"post-5252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-illume-en","10":"tag-illume-emag-en","11":"tag-maryland","12":"tag-north-carolina-at-joint-base-andrews","13":"tag-trump-says-north-carolina-voters-should-vote-twice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}