Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’

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President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent.

“Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” Trump said Monday.

Public records indicate his mail ballot was received and counted by election officials in Palm Beach County, where he is registered to vote, though the records don’t detail how it was delivered to election officials.

It’s a familiar refrain — and action — from Trump, who has often criticized mail voting as rife with fraud. He has used such rhetoric to push a massive elections overhaul bill in Congress called the SAVE America Act.

The bill wouldn’t end mail voting, as he has suggested in public comments.

“As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in

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