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Trump’s election tweet designed to ‘discourage’ states from mail-in voting
US President Donald Trump's suggestion on Twitter that November's election should be delayed due to "inaccurate" and "fraudulent" mail-in voting was designed to discourage that form of voting, according to John Jordan. The former US naval intelligence officer told Sky News the changes were not going to happen, but the tweet was rather designed to draw attention to voter fraud and turn states away from using mail-in voting. “Mail-in ballots are against the American tradition; Americans have always voted in person,” he said. “Democrats seem to want to have mail-in ballots because they rely on so many of their volunteers, unions and so forth, to go to someone’s house, help them fill out a ballot and then return it. “The more hands you have on a ballot, the greater chance for monkey business.” A delay to a presidential election would require approval by Congress in both the House of Representatives and Senate to ratify. Despite the US’ titanic rate of infection from COVID-19 – rising in the order of 10s of thousands daily – Mr Jordan said Americans could vote in person now and should be able to vote then. “About 8,000 people die in the United States every day of normal stuff, now we’re having about 1000 people die on COVID-19,” Mr Jordan said. In a quip hours after Mr Trump’s tweet, presidential rival Joe Biden said “you won't have to worry about my tweets when I'm president”. Historically, the US elections have always fallen on the first Tuesday of November every four years. Image: AP
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US President Donald Trump's suggestion on Twitter that November's election should be delayed due to "inaccurate" and "fraudulent" mail-in voting was designed to discourage that form of voting, according to John Jordan. The former US naval intelligence officer told Sky News the changes were not going to happen, but the tweet was rather designed to draw attention to voter fraud and turn states away from using mail-in voting. “Mail-in ballots are against the American tradition; Americans have always voted in person,” he said. “Democrats seem to want to have mail-in ballots because they rely on so many of their volunteers, unions and so forth, to go to someone’s house, help them fill out a ballot and then return it. “The more hands you have on a ballot, the greater chance for monkey business.” A delay to a presidential election would require approval by Congress in both the House of Representatives and Senate to ratify. Despite the US’ titanic rate of infection from COVID-19 – rising in the order of 10s of thousands daily – Mr Jordan said Americans could vote in person now and should be able to vote then. “About 8,000 people die in the United States every day of normal stuff, now we’re having about 1000 people die on COVID-19,” Mr Jordan said. In a quip hours after Mr Trump’s tweet, presidential rival Joe Biden said “you won't have to worry about my tweets when I'm president”. Historically, the US elections have always fallen on the first Tuesday of November every four years. Image: AP
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