“Is this a joke?” Herter said his wife told him when she opened the mailer to open a photo of Trump grinning under the words, “Are you going to let the Democrats silence you? Work now to stand with President Trump.”
Trump has been criticizing post-voting for months, without fail to claim that it will lead to voter fraud.
This is why Chandler Carranza, of Gaston County, North Carolina, said he laughed after receiving the absentee ballot on Thursday.
“The irony is very thick and is definitely not lost on me,” Carranza told CNN. “Trump has said that mail-in-ballots will bring fraud to the elections, but absent votes are legit. What is it? It can not be both ways. I laughed, because if the campaign actually took information from other times, they did they reach out to me, they would know that I will not vote for Trump despite being a registered Republican. “
The Trump campaign said the mailer shows how it “works to make sure voters in every state know how their state’s sorting system works, so that every eligible voter can cast their vote and count their vote,” “Thea McDonald, deputy national press secretary, told CNN via email after she was shown the mailer.
“President Trump has consistently and rightly said that if a voter is unable to attend the polls, they must request an absentee ballot,” McDonald said. The president has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal post-voting systems, such as those leading to California’s primary re trains, and traditional absent post-voting systems, such as the visited and actual system in North Carolina – a distinction Democrats in the mainstream media deliberately ignore to sow confusion. “
The mailer was sent by the North Carolina Republican Party, press secretary Tim Wigginton told CNN. The state party has sent several statewide posters “to make it easier for interested voters to participate,” Wigginton said.
“We want our voters to know that they can use this tool to cast their vote in an easy, safe and secure way. It’s important to note that the system in North Carolina requires a voter to actively cast a ballot and going through an easy but important verification process to get a vote, “he added. “We, along with President Trump, are opposed to an election process for all posts, in which voters are sending emails without prior request and verification.”
The USPS announced Sunday that it would stop removing mail collection boxes by the end of November after complaints about how some were removed.
House Democrats on Sunday said they were “investigating” their investigation into the United States Postal Service and as Democratic leaders, including House member Nancy Pelosi and Leader of the House of Representatives Chuck Schumer, called Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors Robert Duncan to testify.
Possible action by the House could include banning the Postal Service from changing sorting equipment, preventing the closure of facilities, stopping any attempt to end overtime pay or changing the timing of mail delivery, one of them said. the sources. Democrats can also push language that requires all polling stations to have first-class status.
One voter who is concerned about the problems for the USPS is Taylor Alexander, from Wake County, North Carolina. She received the ballot application form on Wednesday.
“My first reaction was that I was kind of shocked, and laughed because of the irony of it, because Trump was up against post-in-vote, but here was his party, promotion of it, and an absent referral form sent out, “Said Alexander. “I find it ridiculous that funding is being cut and processes are being changed in the post office. People’s life-saving medication is days too late, bills are not paid on time, and everything for what? It makes the election rigged.”
CNN’s Dana Bash, Paul P. Murphy, Lauren Fox, Haley Byrd and Manu Raju contributed to this report.
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