Trump Suggests North Carolina Voters Should Vote Twice to Ensure Votes are Counted
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Trump’s awful advice on voting twicePresident Trump caused a stir Wednesday by advising his supporters in North Carolina to attempt to vote twice. This would be, if completed and done intentionally, illegal. What’s more, North Carolina state law also makes it a Class I felony “to induce” someone to do this.
The pushback from Trump’s allies is familiar: He was joking. And that’s plausible! It’s entirely possible Trump was speaking somewhat in jest to make a point about the supposed lack of security in mail-in voting, which he has routinely attacked in hyperbolic ways. The...
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Trump says North Carolina voters should vote twice; once by mail, once in personU.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that voters in the state of North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by vote and once by mail, to make sure their vote was counted.
“So, let them send it in and let them go vote,” Trump said in an interview with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, when asked about the security of mail-in votes. “And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won’t be able to vote” in person.
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From the Right
Trump Seemed To Suggest North Carolina Residents Should Vote By Absentee Ballot And In Person — Here’s The White House’s ResponsePresident Donald Trump seemed to suggest that North Carolina residents should attempt to vote twice in order to ensure the integrity of the state’s absentee ballot system.
The White House now says the president was not specifically urging North Carolina voters to break election law.
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