Trump votes by mail amid his push to end mail-in ballots
USA TODAY
The president has made passage of his SAVE Act, which would curtail mail-in voting, a major priority.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump cast a ballot by mail in the March 24 special election in Palm Beach, Florida, even though he has spent years attacking mail-in ballots as being susceptible to fraud and wants to largely prohibit the practice nationwide as part of his pending SAVE America Act election security legislation.
In recent days, Trump has ramped up his attacks on mail-in voting, calling it a way for Democrats to try and steal elections.
"Ideally you want to end mail-in ballots because there’s tremendous corruption," Trump said March 24 at the swearing-in of new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
He's also pushing for the Supreme Court to back a Republican effort to stop states from counting late-arriving mail-in ballots, a decision that would lead to stricter voting rules around the country.
Palm Beach County voter records show Trump voted by mail, according to its website. The White House did not dispute that in email exchanges with USA TODAY. Early in-person voting in the race for two state legislative seats ran through March 22, when the president was still at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
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