Jochen SpangenbergAug 18, 2025
Put differently: #Trump lied (once again). This time about #mailvoting

Fact check: Trump falsely clai...
Fact check: Trump falsely claims US is only country that uses mail-in voting

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about elections in a Monday social media post in which he pledged to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and voting machines – including an inaccurate assertion that states have to run elections in the manner the president tells them to.

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BressainNov 4, 2024

Mail-in voting is the best. Love that we've had it in Utah for over a decade now. Even if we got rid of the "mail-in" part and required dropping it off at city drop boxes it would still be awesome. Voting when you have the time is pro-democracy.

#Utah #Vote2024 #MailVoting

Show threadGrinning Cat   🚫👑May 18, 2023

@rob11563 @VisualStuart

Keeping in mind that the political parties have swapped roles - Republicans were the "liberals" in Lincoln's time - don't the partisan objections to #MailVoting sound awfully familiar?

From the article:

... #Republicans, led by President Abraham Lincoln, wanted to let Union soldiers vote from the battlefield. The opposition #Democrats balked. They warned of rampant fraud and "a scheme" by Republicans "to gain some great advantage to their party," as one Wisconsin state senator put it before the legislature voted on party lines to become the first state to legalize absentee #voting.
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During the Civil War ... most states that allowed soldiers to vote — only Republican-controlled ones, given Democrats' objections — did so through the mail ....

... there are no proven instances of widespread fraud among soldiers of the Civil War or any later conflicts, according to experts.

Still, the politics are real.

Heather Price, PhDNov 7, 2022
Vote Tuesday Nov 8th! Find your polling place or check your registration here: https://www.vote.org #MailVoting #VoteByMail #VoteWA #Vote #RoeYourVote #StopFossilFueledClimateChange #VoteforClimateJustice
Tony Stark Sep 29, 2020

Keep an eye on your ballot and vote in person if you have to.

This kind of work should never have been sourced out to private vendors, which is a Trump/Republican goal for every important public service we have. #NewYork #MailVoting #ProtectTheVote

Numerous New Yorkers reported Monday that they’d received mixed-up return envelopes, which would invalidate their votes if they tried to mail them in:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/29/brooklyn-absentee-envelope-election-ny/

‘This is a nightmare’: New Yorkers get absentee ballots with the wrong return envelope

Numerous New Yorkers reported Monday that they’d received mixed-up return envelopes, which would invalidate their votes if they tried to mail them in.

Show threadTony Stark Jul 27, 2020

Call your state governor and ask what's being done to implement mail voting in your state.

Ask them to sign legislation that comes to them to expand mail voting, ask them to implement systems themselves, and ask them to create budgets to allocate money to vote-by-mail systems. #MailVoting 5/8

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