President Donald Trump said in passing remarks in an interview on Thursday that he intends to send law enforcement officers, and “hopefully U.S. attorneys” to help monitor the polling stations to prevent voter fraud during the November elections.
In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity late Thursday, Trump was asked, “Are you going to have poll-watchers, are you going to have an ability to monitor to avoid fraud and cross-check whether or not these are registered voters, whether or not there’s been identification to know it’s a real vote from a real American?”
“We’re going to have everything, we’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to have law enforcement. And we’re going to have hopefully U.S. attorneys, and we’re going to have everybody, and attorney generals,” Trump said, without expanding on how what he said would be carried out.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said in a statement to The Epoch Times, “All Americans deserve an election system that is fair and balanced and President Trump is highlighting that Democrats’ plan for universal mail-out voting would lead to fraud.
“Their attempts to impose a new voting system without the proper guardrails in a hurried fashion ahead of November are reckless.”
“Nobody’s ever heard of anything like this,” he added. “So they’re going to be sending out 51 million ballots to people, they have no idea, why it’s coming, who it’s going to.” The president alleged that “unfortunately they may have a very good idea—the people sending them,” hypothesizing that “they may send them to all Democrat areas, not to Republican areas as an example. Could be the other way too, but I doubt it.”
Trump has repeatedly expressed his concern that universal mail-in ballots could lead to a surge in fraud.
He has also repeatedly made a distinction between universal mail-in voting and absentee voting.
“I think you should redo that election. The opponent is screaming. They can’t believe it. Ballots are lost. Ballots are defrauded. It’s a total mess. And they called it for her. The reason is because I’ve been using it as a case. I’ve been using it as a case,” he alleged at the time, adding, “The ballots are lost. There’s fraud. There’s theft. It’s happening all over the place.”
