Posted on 08/13/2020 10:45:42 PM PDT by PatriotFever
Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump requested mail-in ballots for Florida's primary election on Tuesday, according to Palm Beach County records, despite the President's frequent attacks on voting by mail. The records from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website show the ballots were mailed Wednesday to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, which he made his permanent residence last year. Despite Trump's rhetoric about voting by mail, the President has recently claimed that Florida's voting system is secure, tweeting earlier this month: "Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida's Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail!" White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told CNN that "the President supports absentee voting, not universal mail-in voting, which contain several safeguards that prevent fraud and abuse." Election experts have told CNN there is no real difference between absentee voting and no-excuse mail voting and the two are "essentially the same thing." USA Today was first to report the ballot request. Mail-in voting has been front-and-center in recent weeks as fears of the coronavirus have caused states to make the process easier so residents can avoid going to polling centers where infection can potentially spread. Trump and other Republicans have railed against the option, baselessly asserting that it will lead to voter fraud, with the President saying Thursday that he opposes much-needed funding for the United States Postal Service because he doesn't want to see it used for mail-in voting this November. There is not widespread voter fraud in US elections, and nonpartisan experts say neither party automatically benefits when states expand access to mail-in voting.
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If DNCNN would have listened they would have heard him differentiate between mail in and absentee ballots. Yuge difference.
It is infuriating to listen to these prevaricators. My sister, a honest person with a bad case of TDS, would have no problem sending in extra ballots for her cats if she could do so anonymously.
Voting and classroom learning are similar in that we have to take action to do it - we must leave the couch. And that’s why it works.
CNN is so blatantly corrupt. POTUS and FLOTUS requested ABSENTEE ballots. There is a major difference between an absentee ballot and a standard mail-in ballot.
No...they requested ABSENTEE ballots. He has repeatedly outlined the difference for you lying schmucks at CNN.
There’s a difference between the process.
They requested “mail-in ballots” is actually the process to obtain an absentee ballot.
The Universal Mail-in ballot the democrats are pushing is simply mailing ballots to everyone, dog, cat, and disney character on the voting roles.
President Trump actually made a very good distinction on this at his press conference yesterday.
Everyone who has a deep phobia about the corona should have started a few weeks ago and applied for a mail in ballot.
Skip your morning coffee and buy a stamp.
Buy two stamps and save the post office!
We do not need Dims to flood cities with ballot.
CNN is as always a purveyor of lies.
The President requested absentee ballots.
“We can in Maryland also but in order to do it online (the request) you have to provide your driver’s license number.”
In Michigan, one needs a driver’s license number, state issues I.D. number or the last four digit of your SS number in order to request on line a ballot.
Fake news. Absentee ballots.
They do know the difference; they just wish to make Trump look like a hypocrite.
Unbelievable!!!
Has CNN ever heard the hundreds of times when President Trump said...”Absentee ballots are alright.”
They are perfectly legit. So, CNN makes it sounds as though POTUS is a hypocrite...at least I THINK that’s what they will do...BECAUSE I DON’T READ, LISTEN TO, OR VIEW CNN.
This is CNN. They are purposely choosing the words they did to insinuate requested absentee ballots are no different than shotgunning a ballot to everyone who is registered (slickly worded as simple mail in voting), regardless if they are alive or still live at the last address on file. And, for all of the people who get ALL of their knowledge from the alphabet propaganda outlets, they are betting that those people are that dumb.
100%
Leave it to CNN to deliberately confuse ‘Mail in ballots’ with absentee ballots.
FAKE title, they requested ABSENTEE BALLOTS, not mail in ballots. The media pretends they don’t know the difference when writing their lies.
The Democrats are so sure they can steal the 2020 election that they nominated SloJoe and his black ho. Their game plan is to accomplish the theft using mail-in ballots. The problem with mail-in ballots by mail, unlike absentee ballots, is that the mail-in were not solicited by a vetted process. Like President Trump says, “the mail-in ballots will go to dogs, cats, dead people, and empty lots.
We are going to the poll as usual.
Of course, because they don’t plan on being there, CNN idiots.
You're utterly and irretrievably wrong. Stop enabling them by excusing it. They're lying through their foul teeth to ENABLE the theft of the election, they know EXACTLY what they're doing. Stop giving the left the benefit of the doubt. Give them the doubt of the benefit, like they do to whites, Christians, and heterosexuals.
Agreed, they earn the moniker corrupt media every single day.
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