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Trump Encouraged Mail-In Voting Weeks Before US Midterms Amid No Kings Early Voting Rallies
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No Kings rallies nationwide Oct 17 urged early voting ahead of midterms. Trump urged mail-in voting weeks before midterms, despite years claiming it's corrupt.
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Trump and voting by mail
Donald Trump encouraged Americans to vote by mail just weeks before the US midterm elections, even as his administration fought to restrict it, according to Al Jazeera’s Noor Wazwaz.
“Donald Trump has spent years claiming mail-in voting is corrupt.”
Al Jazeera framed the shift as conflicting with Trump’s years of claiming mail-in voting is corrupt, while it described his administration as contesting mail ballots in the run-up to the November 3 election.
The No Kings network held rallies across the United States on Oct. 17 to urge voters to cast ballots early ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, with signs including "VOTE EARLY" and "HANDS OFF MY VOTE!" held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
City Councilman Michael Julian Bond told the Atlanta rally crowd to use "the power, right? That is the power to vote" ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
Rallies, plans, and pressure
The No Kings coalition organized nearly 3,000 events nationwide to encourage early voting ahead of the November 3 US midterm elections, and it tied the push to escalating disputes over mail-in ballots and immigration enforcement. The No Kings Coalition said in a social media statement, "Across thousands of events in all 50 states and DC today, we are turning enormous people power into direct voter power," as it urged voters to make voting plans and cast ballots early.
In Washington, several hundred people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial, where organizers displayed signs including "VOTE EARLY" and “HANDS OFF MY VOTE." In Phoenix, Democratic Senator Rubén Gallego linked early voting to opposition to the Trump administration’s policies, writing on X, "Today, we voted early to send a message loud and clear: no to separating our families, no to corruption, no to no oligarchs, no to stupid forever wars, and no kings."
Lawsuits over mail ballots
The Trump administration sued California officials on Thursday to ask a judge to prohibit the state from counting mail-in votes from people the federal government identified as “probable” non-citizens until citizenship status can be confirmed, Univision reported. Univision said the Department of Justice asserted that California officials did not meet a 48-hour deadline to review a password-protected USB drive containing a list of 20,000 names that the federal government considers likely non-citizens.
Dean Logan, Los Angeles County registrar, said his office received the letter and the USB drive this week, along with a handwritten note with a password to access the list, and he said he did not consider the USB drive a secure device. Univision reported that Secretary of State Shirley Weber indicated that during the summer the Department of Homeland Security claimed that California had 190,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, but refused to provide the methodology or data sources when her office requested them.