President Trump warns that one vote option that some states plan to provide for the November election – voting via dropbox – is a security risk that poses a risk of fraud.
With this method, people who receive votes in the email would be able to deposit them in a box, but the president claims that this method could expose the system to fraud.
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“So now the Democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a disaster for voter security,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning. “Among other things, they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. Whoever controls them, will they be placed in Republican or Democratic areas? They are not co-sanitized. A big fraud!”
The president was unclear why it would be easier to vote multiple times by this way than by other means. Although states may differ in their rules, USA.gov notes that typically when a person gets an absent vote but then personally tries to vote, they either have to deliver the abstention vote or if they do not agree with it, they get a preliminary vote which would not be counted until the person’s vote has been confirmed.
In New Jersey, for example, where all voters will automatically receive a vote in the mail, anyone who personally chooses to vote in person would have to use a preliminary ballot.
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Trump’s concerns about where the boxes lie appear to be an echo of a point raised in the trial of his campaign against Pennsylvania. The suit alleges that dropboxes used in the state’s primary state were not properly inspected.
The appeal of dropboxes is that they allow voters to send ballot papers by mail where they could be lost or delayed. They also allow people to avoid potential health risks from crowds that could form at personal polling stations, although Trump has questioned how sanitary the boxes would be.
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Chamber member Nancy Pelosi accused Trump on Saturday of trying to “scare” people into not voting. This came in response to Trump saying law enforcement officials could be present on personal voting websites to make sure there is no fraud.
