Trump has said he is holding up funding for the Postal Service to prevent it from being able to handle increased volume of mail-in ballots.
Former President Barack Obama, in an interview released Friday, slammed President Donald Trump for trying to “actively kneecap the Postal Service” to affect mail-in voting in the 2020 election and urged lawmakers and citizens to take actions to “protect the integrity” of the election.
Obama, responding to those remarks, accused Republicans of having tried for years"to discourage people’s votes from counting in all kinds of ways,” like voter identification laws and gerrymandering, but said Trump’s threats were “unique to modern history.” “So in that circumstance, the thing I'm most worried about is … how do we protect the integrity of the election process? How do we make sure that people's votes are counted? How do we police and monitor how state officials are setting up polling places and ensuring that every vote is counted?” he continued.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that mail-in voting, used in the United States since the Civil War, invites fraud and has pushed for in-person voting. There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States, according to numerous investigations and studies.
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