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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's big distortions on mail-in voting

by Associated Press
| September 18, 2020 12:03 AM

President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his monthslong campaign against mail-in voting this November by tweeting critically about the practice, building on complaints he has made all week. The president has recently been trying to distinguish between states that automatically send mail ballots to all registered voters and those that make voters request a mail ballot, but even there he’s badly distorted the practice.

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