Last Updated on July 31, 2020, 9:37 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The President of America, Donald Trump, has suggested a delay to the presidential election which is supposed to be held in November.
He said that the increased postal voting might lead to fraud and give inaccurate results.
He proposed a delay until the people can vote properly and safely.
There is little evidence to support his claims, but he has been against mail-in voting for a long time, and he has said that it would be susceptible to a possibility of fraud.
The American states want to make postal voting easier because of the public health crisis because of the coronavirus pandemic.
However, under the constitution of the United States, Trump does not have the power of postponing the elections by himself. Any delay in the elections would have to be approved by the Congress. The President does not have direct authority over the two houses of Congress.
President Trump has said in a series of tweets that the universal mail-in voting would make voting in November, the “most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history” and a “great embarrassment to the USA”.
He suggested without providing evidence that mail-in voting, as it is known in the United States, would be susceptible to fraud and foreign interference.
He said that the Democrats talk about the foreign influence in elections, but they know that Mail-In Voting is an easy method for the foreign countries to enter the race.
Mr Trump also said that postal voting was proving to be a disaster in the areas where it was tried out.
New York allowed the voters to vote by post in the Democratic primary poll for the presidential candidate of the party in June.
However, the results are still unknown as there have been long delays in counting the ballots.
US media had reported that there are concerns that many ballots would not be counted because they were either filled incorrectly or because they do not have postmarks on them which show that they were sent before the voting officially ended.
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