I didn’t say they’re apples and oranges. Please read what I said again.
Trump and Melania voted by returning their ballots through the mail, did they not? That’s voting by mail. In their case, it was also absentee voting.
POTUS seems to understand that Vote By Mail and Absentee Voting are virtually the same:
“Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida's Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail!"
The 195 million voters from 44 states (Florida is one of them) and the DC can vote by mail for any reason, including the pandemic. Voters in the other six states may do absentee voting by mail. Voting by mail has been going on for a long time without significant fraud (although there was a case in 2018 in NC of Republican fraud in a Congressional election).
I support mail-in voting whenever adequate safeguards are in place against fraud. How about YOU?
And we all know why Trump singled out Florida. Not because its vote by mail process is uniquely superior to that in other states. It’s because his advisors told him that the large elderly voter population in Florida LIKES vote by mail, so he’d better support it there if he wants a chance to win that key state.
-- Modified on 8/23/2020 6:56:00 AM