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Originally Posted by activeStick
So mainstream media and even non traditional media platforms have really latched on to the "Trump encouraged Americans to commit a felony by encouraging them to vote twice", train but I'm not sure that's what he said. I'm the furthest you can be from a Trump supporter, but when I watched the clip, he was telling voters that choose to vote by mail to send in their early ballot, then go into their polling place and line up to vote again where they'd have mechanisms in place to verify if your early vote has already been counted, in which case you wouldn't be allowed to vote. As usual, Trump's messaging was a bit garbled as he isn't very good at putting sentences together, but that's what I got from what he said. Maybe I'm missing something?
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Just attempting to vote twice is a felony. Which includes voting by mail and then going to vote in person just in case your mail ballot hasn’t been counted yet.