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Trump wrongly says Jimmy Carter said ‘don’t ever use’ mail ballots [1]
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Date: 2022-11-07 20:15:43+00:00
Former President Donald Trump, who has long spread falsehoods about mail ballots, recently distorted what former President Jimmy Carter said about voting by mail.
During an Oct. 31 interview on Sebastian Gorka’s podcast, Trump said: “2020 was a really bad period because they used so many of the mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots by (their) very nature, even Jimmy Carter said, don’t ever use them, that will be corrupt, they can be so easily corrupted.”
Carter raised security concerns about mail ballots in a 2005 report that addressed mail and in-person voting. But the report, which he co-wrote with James Baker III, President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state, did not state “don’t ever use” mail-in ballots.
An Instagram post by Gorka that included a clip of the interview was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The caption on the post said, “Are Elections Safe in America?”
Trump’s statement also omitted that nearly two decades later, voting experts and officials know far more about absentee voting security and how to improve it.
In 2020, Carter encouraged expansion of voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, and in 2021 he reiterated his belief in voting by mail. A spokesperson told us that Carter and his wife cast mail ballots for the current midterm elections. Trump himself has sometimes used a mail ballot.
What the 2005 Carter-Baker report said about mail-in voting
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