Trump Gives 'Illegal Advice to Vote Twice'
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On Thursday, North Carolina’s Board of Elections issued a statement telling voters it is illegal to vote in an election twice after President Trump appeared to encourage supporters in North Carolina to both mail in ballots and vote in person. While left-leaning articles highlight that a chorus of election officials and social media companies have rushed to condemn Trump’s suggestion that his supporters should try to vote more than once, right-leaning articles highlight that Twitter masked a pair of tweets from Trump encouraging people to potentially vote twice.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that a chorus of election officials, legal analysts, and social media companies rushed to condemn and counter President Trump’s suggestion that his supporters should attempt to vote more than once. The president’s remarks in North Carolina have marked his latest attempt to impugn the integrity of mail-in voting.
USA Today published a centrist article reporting that after arriving in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump told local station WECT that voters should test their state’s election system by voting twice. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said if someone tries to get around the system, their mailed-in ballot “can be retrieved and not counted.”
A right-leaning article by The New York Post highlights that Twitter masked a pair of tweets from President Trump for encouraging people to potentially vote twice, which “may be illegal.” The action follows Facebook’s censoring footage of Trump encouraging people to consider voting-in-person.
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Twitter joins censorship barrage on Trump, says vote-twice advice ‘may be illegal’
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