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Trump threatens to withhold Michigan funding over mail-in voting
The Hill ^ | 05/20/20 08:22 AM EDT | BY MORGAN CHALFANT

Posted on 05/20/2020 5:36:13 AM PDT by RandFan

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal funding to Michigan after the state's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) announced all of the state’s registered voters would receive applications for absentee ballots in the mail this year.

Trump charged that the step was done “illegally” and threatened to withhold funding if the state did not reverse course, suggesting the move would encourage voter fraud.

“Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. “This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”

Trump later copied Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the Treasury Department on the tweet.

Trump has frequently voiced his opposition to expansions in mail-in voting, leveling unsubstantiated and exaggerated claims that mail-in ballots are riddled with fraud and “corrupt.”

While voting experts say there are higher levels of voter fraud in mail-in voting than in-person voting, they agree that overall cases of voter fraud are rare.

“Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to statewide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it,” Trump tweeted last month. “Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans.”

Democrats have supported mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to ensure that voters can vote safely in the 2020 elections without risking exposure to the virus.

The $2 trillion bipartisan relief package that Trump signed into law in late March provides $400 million for states to prepare for upcoming primaries and the November general election during the coronavirus outbreak.

Benson said in a statement Tuesday that sending mail-in applications to Michigan’s 7.7 million registered voters would ensure their safety.

“By mailing applications, we have ensured that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote,” Benson said. “Voting by mail is easy, convenient, safe, and secure, and every voter in Michigan has the right to do it.”

Trump’s tweet comes just a day before the president’s scheduled trip to a Ford manufacturing plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., to highlight the company’s work producing ventilators to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: mi; trump; witch
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1 posted on 05/20/2020 5:36:13 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Good


2 posted on 05/20/2020 5:39:04 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: RandFan

you GO Mr. President Trump ! !


3 posted on 05/20/2020 5:39:06 AM PDT by knarf
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To: RandFan

I wish he’d stop with the empty threats. States control their own elections, even for federal office.


4 posted on 05/20/2020 5:39:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RandFan

If people want a mail in ballot all they have to do is request one.


5 posted on 05/20/2020 5:40:11 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Not one politician or journalist has died of Covid)
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To: Fai Mao

Such a crock of crap, this whole thing.

We better have learned from this, for the future, and NEVER shut down our country again.


6 posted on 05/20/2020 5:41:46 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: RandFan

7 posted on 05/20/2020 5:41:56 AM PDT by knarf
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To: DoodleDawg

In Texas state constitution prohibits mailing everyone absentee ballots. But it’s not stopping the Democrats from pushing forward through the courts even though it is against the state constitution.

I can’t speak for the other 49 states but I’m sure the actions are the same in every state because the Democrats are trying to balance stuff in ballot harvesting and steal the 2020 election in unconstitutional means.

So if rogue secretaries of State violate their state constitutions how is that leading states determine their elections?


8 posted on 05/20/2020 5:43:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: RandFan

“every voter in Michigan has the right to do it.” According to Democrats, those voters include dead people, dogs, cats, illegal aliens, or anyone else that they can name on a mail in ballot.


9 posted on 05/20/2020 5:43:40 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: nikos1121
NEVER shut down our country again.

BINGO!

10 posted on 05/20/2020 5:44:25 AM PDT by Fishtalk
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To: RandFan
So the MAIL-IN VOTER FRAUD WILL CONTINUE and the only "penalty" is a temporary halt of some funding.

That's just great....

11 posted on 05/20/2020 5:47:23 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: RandFan

Michigan Governor once worked for Soros. Maybe she is a big Socialist.


12 posted on 05/20/2020 5:47:43 AM PDT by FreedBird
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Of course, there are a plethora of Bubbs and Dorkbama “judges” out there who will make up something to stop this.

Legal system?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!


13 posted on 05/20/2020 5:47:49 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: McGavin999

In 2016 they tried to start a constitutional amendment to have everyone vote by mail in Michigan but it didn’t get submitted or pass.

https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Voting_By_Mail_Initiative_(2016)


14 posted on 05/20/2020 5:48:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: FreedBird

What was the first sign? :)


15 posted on 05/20/2020 5:49:05 AM PDT by No.6
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To: a fool in paradise

Just heard on local news. ..Texas has passed mail in voting for the primaries. ....not yet for the general. ...a judge did this. ...it is now under appeal. ....the rats want Texas real bad. ...


16 posted on 05/20/2020 5:50:19 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: a fool in paradise
In Texas state constitution prohibits mailing everyone absentee ballots.

Unless it's also illegal in Michigan then there is nothing Trump or anyone else can do about it.

17 posted on 05/20/2020 5:50:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Go post on DU.


18 posted on 05/20/2020 5:52:28 AM PDT by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: Fai Mao

DITTO!!


19 posted on 05/20/2020 5:54:42 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: DoodleDawg
States control their own elections, even for federal office.

I must have missed when the Michigan state assembly passed an such laws.
Diktats from Whitmer do not equal laws.
The Michigan state assemblies are already suing Whitmer in court over her unconditional lockdown diktats and stand a good chance of winning just like they won in Wisconsin.
You are going to have to find another way to cheat.

20 posted on 05/20/2020 5:54:50 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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