Trump Endorses Absentee Voting as ‘Good’ Option as He Seeks to Mobilize GOP Voters

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed absentee and early ballots as “good options” alongside Election Day voting as he seeks to rally Republican voters in his efforts to clinch a victory over his Democrat rival in the November election. President Trump has long expressed a strong preference for Election Day voting while being a sharp critic of no-excuse mail-in ballots, repeatedly railing against the practice as rife with the potential for fraud. Polling shows that Republican voters overwhelmingly share his reservations about no-excuse mail-in voting and tend to be suspicious of anything but same-day voting. While the former president has said in the past that he doesn’t object to absentee ballots—meaning mail-in ballots that require a process including justification for reasons like disability or illness—he’s now giving them, and early voting more generally, a more full-throated endorsement....