President Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia’s autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.
The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES.”
Hours later, conservative network Newsmax announced it had agreed to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming some of that same voting equipment. A Delaware judge ruled Newsmax defamed Dominion by airing false information about it.
Oregon was the first state to switch entirely to vote by mail, after voters overwhelmingly backed the approach in 1998, and man