Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

"He is trying for a setup, by claiming absentee ballots can't be trusted."

But, as I posted, absentee voting is evenly divided among Dem and GOP electorates and is trusted in one of the most GOP of States.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-pushes-false-claims-about-mail-vote-fraud-here-are-n1180566

Claim: Only blue states vote by mail. This is false.

In response to a question from a reporter who named the states that already vote entirely by mail, Trump drew a partisan distinction, suggesting that mail-in ballots favor Democrats.

“Every one of those states that you mentioned is a state that happens to be won by the Democrats,” the president said April 8.

Not true. While Hawaii, Oregon and Washington typically send Democrats to Washington, D.C., Colorado has long been a purple state and it has a congressional delegation split evenly between the two parties.

Utah, meanwhile, is reliably a red state that Trump won in 2016. The state is currently represented by two Republican senators, a Republican governor, a Republican-controlled state Legislature, and a House delegation with three Republicans and one Democrat.

What's more, state Director of Elections Justin Lee, who works with Cox, said Utah has not seen evidence that the mail-in voting system benefits Democrats.

"It doesn't seem to benefit one party or another at all," he said. "One of the good indications of that is our one competitive congressional district — the fourth district — has flipped back and forth over the last few years from Republican to Democrat."