But his latest ballot request comes amid escalating attacks on mail-in voting by the president and his administration. “Absentee ballots, by the way, are fine,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. ADADTrump previously voted absentee in Florida’s primary in March, despite being in the area at the time, and also voted absentee in New York in 2018. He attempted to vote absentee in 2017 in the New York mayoral election, but he listed the wrong birth date. Attorney General William P. Barr, who has echoed Trump’s rhetoric against mail-in voting, voted absentee in 2019 and 2012 in Virginia.

Source: Washington Post August 14, 2020 10:23 UTC