Uproar as Trump tells people to vote twice

Washington, September 3

President Donald Trump is facing a backlash for urging voters in North Carolina to vote by mail and then try to vote again in person to test the mail-in ballot system in the November 3 election.

Trump was asked by a TV reporter during his trip to Wilmington, North Carolina, if he had confidence in the vote-by-mail system. “They will vote and then they are going to have to check their vote by going to the polls and voting that way because if it tabulates then they won’t be able to do that,” Trump told WECT.

“So, let them send it in and let them go vote. And if the system is as good as they say it is, then they obviously won’t be able to vote (at the polls). If it isn’t tabulated, they will be able to vote.”

North Carolina’s Attorney General, Democrat Josh Stein, said it was outrageous for the President to suggest that people “break the law in order to help him sow chaos in our election.”— AP