More False Mail-In Ballot Claims from Trump
California will send every registered voter in the state a mail-in ballot for the November general election. But President Donald Trump falsely said, on Twitter and at the White House, that the ballots would go to “anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there” and “people that aren’t citizens.”
The president went on to make the unsupported claim that mail-in voting would be “substantially fraudulent.” Experts have told us that voter fraud via mail-in ballots is rare, though more common than in-person voting fraud — another topic Trump has repeatedly been wrong about.
Five states already conduct elections primarily by mail-in vote: , , , and . All of them will send registered voters a mail-in ballot in advance of the election, and the individual state election materials. In Utah, all but two counties automatically sent ballots to registered voters in the, and this year’s will be conducted primarily by mail, due to the coronavirus pandemic, with no regular polling places available in all but one county.
