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  • 2020-05-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Has President Trump Ever Voted by Mail? (en)
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  • On May 20, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse Michigan's rogue Secretary of State of going down a Voter Fraud path by mailing absentee ballots to 7.7 million people. In addition to being factually inaccurate (Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sent out applications, not ballots), this tweet prompted some social media users to note that while Trump continues to spread the idea that voting by mail leads to more voter fraud (a claim that is not supported by evidence), Trump himself has voted via absentee ballots in previous elections: David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida, was correct when he tweeted Trump has voted by mail. Trump has used the absentee voting system in at least three elections: Trump voted by mail during New York's mayoral election in 2017, cast an absentee ballot during the state's midterm election the following year, and again used a vote-by-mail ballot in Florida's primary election in 2020. In 2017, Trump, first lady Melania Trump and their daughter, Ivanka Trump, all cast absentee votes during New York's mayoral race. These votes made headlines at the time because it was reported that Melania and Ivanka filled out their ballots incorrectly (and therefore were invalid) while the president listed the wrong birth date: In 2018, Trump again voted by mail during New York's midterm election. The Hill reported in November at the time: In 2020, after changing his primary residence to Florida, Trump cast an absentee ballot in that state's presidential primary election. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that a representative for the president picked up absentee ballots from the Palm Beach County Elections Office and then returned them the day before the primary: In all, Trump has voted by mail or submitted an absentee ballot in at least three elections. We reached out to the New York State Board of Elections for more information about Trump's vote-by-mail record and will update this article if more information becomes available. During a press conference in April, Trump was asked how he could reconcile the fact that he has voted by mail in previous elections considering his position that voting by mail was corrupt: (en)
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