U.S will hold elections on November 3, said the White House chief of staff this Sunday, Mark Meadows, when trying to turn off the alarms that the president turned on Donald Trump after suggesting the possibility of delaying the process in case of doubts about voting by mail.
“We are going to hold an election on November 3 and the president is going to win,” replied Meadows when asked about it on the program. “Face the Nation“from CBS News.
Trump suggested Thursday that elections in which the possibility of a second term is at stake should be delayed, insisting on his criticism of the mail-in voting system.
“With the universal vote by mail (not the absentee vote, which is good), 2020 will be the most IMPRESSIVE and FRAUDULENT election in history. It will be a great shame for the USA. ¿We delay the Elections until people can vote safely and appropriately ??? “Trump wrote in Twitter.
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The ruler redrew a difference between postal voting and absentee voting, which he considers much safer, since he used it in March during the primaries of Florida, despite the fact that the experts assure that it is practically the same and is carried out with the same safeguards.
Meadows considered that voting by mail “is not a good idea for the country” and argued that if this system is extended it can cause delays in the electoral results.
“He has not considered delaying any election,” said the official, who noted that the president’s message on Twitter “was a question mark.”
In a press conference after his tweet was published, Trump raised the idea that voting by mail means that the winner of the elections is not known on election night.
“I don’t want a delay. I want elections. But I don’t want to have to wait three months and then see how votes are missing and elections are worth nothing. This is what’s going to happen. It’s common sense, and everyone knows it.” said the ruler.
Several states have expanded voting by mail due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Oregon, which was the first to adopt this system, has only registered twelve cases of fraud among more than 100 million ballots sent.
Independent experts and election officials from various states, including Republicans, have denied that the system can lead to fraud.
To delay the day of the electoral journey, the president should count on the support of Congress to modify a federal law of 1845 that establishes the first Tuesday, after the first Monday in November, as the day to celebrate the day of legislative elections, which run parallel to the election process of the president every four years.
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