Trump submits vote by post vote in Florida

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The Palm Beach County Electoral Bureau received the ballots completed Monday, a spokesman for the bureau confirmed to The Hill. The votes of the president and first lady were personally removed instead of being sent by post to the county, Electoral Officer Wendy Sartory Link told the Palm Beach Post. Link told the newspaper that the votes would be counted Tuesday.

The Trumps had asked their vote-by-post votes and plan to be picked up in person last week by a designated representative. The completed ballots were then set aside for the 7 hour Tuesday deadline for voting by post ballots.

The Palm Beach Post reported that the president did not meet the deadline to ask to cast a ballot for him before the election – ballots must be requested 10 days before an election – and instead elect a representative to cast the ballots.

The Trumps similarly submitted ballots by e-mail at Florida’s presidential primary in March, after changing their permanent home address in Palm Beach County, home to President Mar-a-Lago’s private resort.

The president has distinguished between absent votes and universal post-in-vote, slamming the latter as opening elections for widespread fraud, despite a lack of evidence. He emphasized that story in a video posted on Facebook in which he drew the vote by post.

“It simply came to our notice then. Universal mail-ins if you get overwhelmed with these things are bad and will lead to horrible things including voter fraud, etc. “, He insisted in the clip.

Only nine states offer universal vote-by-post votes that are automatically mailed to registered voters, including five states that have submitted to the coronavirus pandemic, according to The New York Times. Florida is not one of those states.

Until 2002, Florida had required voters to apologize for a request to receive a ballot by postal ballot. Now an apology is not necessary, but voters still have to purchase their applications because they are not automatically emailed.

The Florida legislature officially changed the 2016 name from “absent” to “vote-by-post” to avoid confusion, according to the Palm Beach Post.

More than 75 percent of voters in the primary so far have voted by post, which is about 20,000 more voted per post-vote than in 2018 and 2016, according to the website for election office.

Trumps’ submission of their vote-by-post votes comes as Democrats push for billions of dollars in additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service amid fears that changes will delay the post, including post-ballots for the November election .

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