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I don't think anyone is seriously opposed to absentee voting when the person doesn't have a practical way to vote at the polls, due to being away from their district on election day, being medically unable to leave their home, or that sort of thing. They just want to curtail it to such necessary cases. Trump presumably voted from Washington DC for Florida election and that would qualify.
Trump voted by mail while golfing in Florida, so no childfucker is just a hypocrite.
Shrug, I'm not a fan of Trump but I still don't see the issue there. If he got mail-in voting banned and then skirted around the ban himself somehow, that would be scammy. If he wants it banned for everyone including him, but as long as it's available to everyone he's gonna use it, then whatever. The thing about postmark not being good enough to authenticate voting date is just crazy though. Postmarks are used for all kinds of legal authentication and voting isn't special that way.
I can't fathom any reasonable person giving Trump the benefit of the doubt about anything election related in 2026.
I'd say "think harder" but uh, you can actually think LESS when the answer to why he wants to stop mail-in voting is this obvious.
Not giving Trump any benefit it's about someone (even a bad person) using the options they have available. People here love saying gotcha but in this instance it's illogical.
He has no medical issues preventing him from voting and the president of the United States makes their own schedule.
He's voting by mail because it's more convenient.
Yes, exactly. He wants that option banned, but for now it exists and he uses it. Do you want the option to exist for everyone else but not for him? It will be different if he gets it banned but then circumvents the ban somehow.
There's no helping you if you don't see the hypocrisy in actively doing the thing you're trying to get banned.
Are you for real?