| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice 12:30 - Sep 3 with 194 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
US President Donald Trump has told people in the state of North Carolina to vote twice in November's election, despite this being illegal.
Mr Trump suggested voters vote once in person and a second time by post, in order to stress-test the system.
The president has frequently made false claims that postal votes are vulnerable to significant electoral fraud.
"Let them send it in and let them go vote," he told North Carolina broadcaster WECT-TV on Wednesday.
"And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won't be able to vote (in person)."
After President Trump made the comments, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein tweeted that he had "outrageously encouraged" people in the state to "break the law in order to help him sow chaos in our election".
"Make sure you vote, but do not vote twice!" Mr Stein added. "I will do everything in my power to make sure the will of the people is upheld in November."
Democrats have also accused President Trump and the Republican party of attempting to suppress the vote in order to help their side in the election.
President Trump was in Wilmington, North Carolina, to formally designate the city an American World War Two Heritage City.
What are Trump's claims - and is there any truth to them?
This isn't the first time President Trump has made controversial comments about postal voting.
Speaking at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last month, he claimed "there's tremendous fraud involved" with postal voting and that "we have to be very, very careful".
But these claims have been strongly and repeatedly debunked by experts.
Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, responded at the time that "there's simply no basis for the conspiracy theory that voting by mail causes fraud".
In addition, numerous nationwide and state-level studies over the years have not revealed evidence of major, widespread fraud.
In the 2016 US presidential election, nearly one quarter of votes were cast by post, and that number is expected to rise this time round due to public health concerns over coronavirus.
Individual US states control their own voting rules for federal elections - and many are looking to increase postal voting to prevent large gatherings at polling stations on election day. A number of states are planning to hold "all-mail" ballot elections this November.
The rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between 0.00004% and 0.0009%, according to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54011022
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| ‘Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. Where there is truth, may we bring error. Where there is faith, may we bring doubt. And where there is hope, may we bring despair’ |
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| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 19:14 - Sep 3 with 176 views | spudgun |
He really is beyond comment now!
Everyday is more surreal.
I think he will spontaneously combust in early November if he is still behind in the polls... | | | |
| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 19:25 - Sep 3 with 174 views | spell_chekker |
At random, I'd guess that North Carolina is a Trump stronghold.
Man, woman, dog, cat, ........... errrrr ..... T.V.? pet? animal? .... person!!!! | |
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| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 20:21 - Sep 3 with 171 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
There's a part of North Carolina where they think I'm a Limey, Redcoat, left of Stalin, Commie...... and that's just the Democrat supporters. | |
| ‘Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. Where there is truth, may we bring error. Where there is faith, may we bring doubt. And where there is hope, may we bring despair’ |
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| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 20:31 - Sep 3 with 163 views | Imperial |
Don't you just love America the land of the free providing you are insane. | | | |
| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 20:37 - Sep 3 with 161 views | spudgun |
I think we`ve always thought that of you on here, Red...  | | | |
| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 12:53 - Sep 4 with 148 views | BringBackTheRedRoom |
He's going for the Nixon '72 playbook. Law and order and also the Communist threat.
Law and order bit is easy, backing the police, whatever happens, saying democrats are soft on it.
The communist threat is a little bit more subtle, Just about every interview I've seen recently, Republican lawmakers now refer to China as "Communist China" and also refer to the four Democrat lawmakers known as the "Gang of Four" as Socialist/Communist Anti-Americans, so as to draw a direct comparison between them.
Worked for Nixon won a huge victory with over 60% of the popular vote and 520 - 17 in the Electoral college vote. Went downhill pretty quickly after that for him, though. | |
| ‘Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. Where there is truth, may we bring error. Where there is faith, may we bring doubt. And where there is hope, may we bring despair’ |
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| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 13:34 - Sep 4 with 146 views | spudgun |
I see he`s lying again today, denying calling John McCain `a loser`, when he`s on record ...erm, calling him a loser... 
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| Trump tells North Carolina voters to vote twice on 14:44 - Sep 4 with 133 views | spell_chekker |
He reminds me a bit of Ronald Reagan, another class act. | |
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