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= Fact check: Trump lies about voter fraud while states, CDC encourage voting-by-mail as pandemic-friendly option =

==== President Donald Trump this week opened a new front in his campaign of lies about voter fraud in US elections, this time falsely claiming that voting-by-mail is "corrupt" and "dangerous," even while states embrace it as a safe alternative during the pandemic. ====

==== While ramping up his attacks at White House briefings and on Twitter, Trump did not hide his political calculations, openly surmising that Republicans will lose ground if more people vote by mail. ====

==== Experts say expanded postal voting is a critical component of any effort to hold a safe and fair election during the coronavirus pandemic, and Trump appears to be drawing a line in the sand. ====

==== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html "Mail ballots, they cheat. People cheat," Trump said Tuesday, when asked if states should expand absentee voting during the pandemic. "Mail ballots are very dangerous thing for this country because they're cheaters. They go and collect them. They're fraudulent in many cases] ====

==== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html One day later, Trump tweeted that voting-by mail "doesn't work out well for Republicans." He urged Republicans to "fight very hard" against any efforts to expand statewide mail-in voting, even though he has previously taken advantage of absentee voting in his home state of Florida.] ====

==== "I'm not going to say which party does it, but thousands of votes are gathered, and they come in and they're dumped in a location, and then all of a sudden you lose elections that you think you're going to win," Trump later said, implying wrongdoing by Democrats, even though the most egregious alleged voter fraud scheme in decades was designed to help a Republican. ====

==== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html Facts First: ''Trump is lying about voter fraud. Multiple studies have confirmed that there is no widespread voter fraud in this country, and millions of Americans vote-by-mail each year without systemic problems. This year, Democratic and Republican state officials have made it easier to vote-by-mail, acting on a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''] ====

'This is a flat-out lie'
=== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html For years, Trump has embraced conspiracy theories about voter fraud. He set up a presidential commission to investigate the issue, but the panel disbanded without uncovering any evidence to support Trump's claims that millions voted illegally in 2016, costing him the popular vote.] ===

=== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html Voter fraud does exist, but not on the massive scale that Trump claims. An expansive study in 2017 from the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal-leaning think tank, found that the rate of voter fraud in the United States was somewhere between 0.00004% and 0.0009% of all votes.] ===

=== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html Voting-by-mail has become increasingly popular in US elections, and nearly a quarter of all voters cast mail ballots in 2016, according to the Election Assistance Commission. This includes traditional absentee ballots plus the handful of states that conduct elections entirely by mail, which Trump singled out this week as a particularly "dangerous" system that is "ripe for fraud."] ===

=== [https://newsgoogle3.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-lies-about-voter-fraud-while.html Those claims are false. While there are vulnerabilities, multiple layers of protections are in place to make sure voting-by-mail is clean, both by election officials and volunteers, sometimes assisted by technology such as special software that compares signatures in a statewide database. If anything, experts say too many absentee ballots are improperly rejected] ===