{"id":1676694,"date":"2022-10-06T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676694"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:36:10","slug":"trump-calls-for-return-to-paper-ballots-ending-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-return-to-paper-ballots-ending-mail-in-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls for Return to Paper Ballots, Ending Mail-In Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-calls-for-return-to-paper-ballots-ending-mail-in-voting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676694&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> this week called for the United States to return to using paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ballots\">ballots<\/a> and again called for an end to mail-in balloting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have mail-in ballots, unless somebody\u2019s very, very sick or it\u2019s military far away,\u201d Trump told Just the News in an <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/all-things-trump\/trump-calls-return-paper-ballots-end-no-excuses-mail-voting?utm_source=news.google.com&amp;utm_medium=news-app&amp;utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators\">interview,<\/a> noting that lengthy delays for a week or more in counting those ballots have eroded voters\u2019 confidence in election systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should go to paper ballots, like they did in France. Thirty-six million people [voted] and they had no disputes. Everyone had paper ballots, and it was one-day voting. They didn\u2019t store them over there in the corner, and you see the boxes moving all over the place,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Government should adopt \u201cone-day voting\u201d and \u201cshould go to paper ballots,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd you would have elections that everybody could be proud of. Because right now, this country is a laughingstock all over the world. They\u2019re laughing at our stupid elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2020 presidential election, Trump frequently criticized how long it took states to count and certify votes. He\u2019s also often stated that mail-in ballots can be easily tampered with and has said the 2020 election was marred by mail-in ballot fraud.<\/p>\n<p> Lawsuits <\/p>\n<p>Since that election, a number of lawsuits have been filed to toss mail-in ballot provisions in several states. Several months ago, Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/gop-says-pennsylvania-mail-in-voting-law-is-invalid_4615065.html\">challenged<\/a>\u00a0a 2019 law that largely expanded mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, while a Delaware state court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/delaware-court-strikes-down-states-voting-by-mail-law_4732093.html\">separately blocked<\/a> voting by mail in that state on Sept. 14 following a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>A judge in June, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-rejects-gop-challenge-to-mail-in-voting-in-arizona_4516581.html\">rejected<\/a> a Republican challenge to Arizona\u2019s mail-in voting provision, which was set up in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>This week,\u00a0North Carolina\u2019s State Board of Elections directed county election officials not to engage in signature matching when reviewing absentee ballot envelopes this fall after a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump this week called for the United States to return to using paper ballots and again called for an end to mail-in balloting. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have mail-in ballots, unless somebody\u2019s very, very sick or it\u2019s military far away,\u201d Trump told Just the News in an interview, noting that lengthy delays for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}