Trump, who 'harshly criticized' mail-in voting, says "I will cast an absentee ballot"

Mail Voting and Absentee Voting Formats Are Practically Identical

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[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] U.S. President Donald Trump, who opposed mail-in voting and even mentioned postponing the presidential election, announced that he will cast an absentee ballot in this election.

On the 31st (local time), President Trump met with the leadership of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) at the White House, where he encouraged Republican voters to vote absentee and revealed that he himself would be voting absentee, according to Bloomberg and other U.S. media. President Trump's address is Palm Beach, Florida.

He said, "Absentee voting is a great thing." Considering that absentee voting is conducted in the same way as mail-in voting, this reverses his harsh criticism of mail-in voting just a day earlier.

The day before, President Trump posted a "bombshell tweet" abruptly mentioning the possibility of postponing the November 3 presidential election, raising suspicions of election fraud due to the expansion of mail-in voting amid the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), but retracted it within nine hours amid strong backlash.

On this day, President Trump continued to harshly criticize mail-in voting, calling it a "disaster." He said, "It will be rigged," and added, "People need to be smart."

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