'President Trump's threats to stop mail-in votes seem to be less about actual legal imperatives than signaling to others his desire to fight hard to limit ballot access — and to undermine confidence in the 2020 election,' Elie Honig writes for CNNOpinion.
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President Donald Trump's effort to cast doubt on the 2020 election is in full swing. In the past week, he has wrongly called lawful vote-by-mail programs in Michigan and Nevada"voter fraud,""illegal," and"cheat[ing]," threatening to withhold federal funds if those states carry out their existing, lawful balloting processes. On Sunday, he tweeted that mail-in vote proponents were"trying to use Covid for this scam.
Elie Honig In reality, the President has virtually no legal power to determine how states cast their ballots. But Trump's effort here seems to be less about exercising actual legal imperatives than signaling to others his desire to fight hard to limit access to mail-in ballots -- a particularly critical issue given widespread concerns about public gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.
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