Neo-fascist demagogue and pathological liar Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump's Big Lie that he won the election in part is premised on the fiction that absentee ballots are subject to massive fraud and manipulation. Fable after fable of supposed fraud involving mail-in ballots were rejected by court after court, up to and including the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump's final appeal on Monday challenging Wisconsin's mail-in ballot process.
In Trump's deceitful and delusional world, that process is fraudulent except when he himself uses it, witness his request for an absentee ballot for Palm Beach, Florida's upcoming municipal elections. According to the Palm Beach Post:
"Despite his false claims about mail voting during the 2020 election cycle, Trump requested a mail ballot on Friday for the third time in his Palm Beach County voter history.
The request was made nearly a week after the deadline to have a ballot be sent by mail. Mail ballots can be requested through Tuesday but must be picked up in person by the voter or a designee.
It is likely that Trump had an associate pick up the ballot in person on his behalf, as he did for the presidential primary last March and for the August primary." (our emphasis)
This story will be dismissed by his blindly devoted cult, which brushes off all evidence of his duplicity whether it involves voting, religion, or anything else. The danger is that his minions in state legislatures are using his malicious fictions about absentee voting to curtail it in the future, which will disadvantage Dem constituencies.
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As much as I hate to say it, T's not a hypocrite in this case. Before the election, he made a big deal about the fraudulence of mail-in ballots. His BFF, the governor of Florida, took exception, so the Big Orange said that Florida - alone! - had a good absentee ballot system.
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