Twitter Issues Warning on Trump's Post Urging Both Mail and In-Person Voting

Ahead of Mail-In Voting Launch in North Carolina, 'Mail-In Voting = Fraud' Frame
Election Commission Issues Illegal Warning

[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] Twitter has added a warning to U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet urging people to vote both by mail and in person.

A warning label from Twitter is attached to President Trump's Twitter post.

On the 3rd (local time), President Trump claimed on his Twitter account that people should sign their mail-in ballots and send them by mail as soon as possible.

He also recommended going to the polling station on Election Day or during early voting to check whether their mail-in vote was properly counted. This is a suggestion to participate in in-person voting in case the mailed ballot was sent but not counted.

This mention aligns with President Trump's interview with the media during his visit to North Carolina a day earlier, where he urged North Carolina voters to participate in both mail-in and in-person voting.

Ahead of North Carolina's mail-in voting starting on the 4th, this effectively accuses mail-in voting of fraud and election rigging. Although President Trump's attacks on mail-in voting have come in various forms, this is the first time he has advocated voting both by mail and in person.

In response, Twitter warned that President Trump's tweet violated its operational rules. However, the tweet was neither deleted nor made unreadable. Twitter has repeatedly restricted access to or attached warnings to President Trump's tweets.

Facebook also announced that it may remove President Trump's post if it spreads without appropriate context, while attaching a notice that mail-in voting is a trusted voting method that has been used for a long time.

Josh Stein, North Carolina's Attorney General and a Democrat, also opposed the president's suggestion to break the law to sow confusion in the election, calling it absurd and saying, "Be sure to vote, but do not vote twice." Under North Carolina state law, voting twice is a felony.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections also posted on its website that it is illegal to ask someone to vote twice, without directly naming President Trump.

According to The Washington Post, North Carolina recognizes absentee ballots as valid if they arrive up to three days after Election Day. If the mail arrives after Election Day, election officials may not be able to confirm on Election Day that the voter has cast an absentee ballot.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended President Trump's suggestion to vote both by mail and in person during the daily briefing, saying it was "not about doing something illegal but about verifying that all votes are counted."

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