Many North Carolina residents received mail over the weekend of an absentee ballot request form with President Donald Trump’s face on it, and some of them are not happy about it.
This comes days after Trump said he is against crucial USPS funding because he doesn’t want to see it used for mail-voting this November.
"Is this a joke?" one Lincoln County voter, Herter, told his wife told as she opened up the paper form showing a photo of Trump smiling underneath the words, "Are you going to let the Democrats silence you? Act now to stand with President Trump."
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, voting-by-mail has skyrocketed. However, Trump is trying to limit this option because he said it’s filled with fraud and abuse, according to CNN.
The mailer was sent by the North Carolina Republican Party. Many statewide mailers were sent "to make it easier for interested voters to participate," according to their press secretary Tim Wigginton.
"We want our voters to know they can utilize this tool to cast their ballot in an easy, safe and secure manner. It is important to note that the North Carolina system requires a voter to actively solicit a ballot and go through an easy but important verification process to request a ballot," he added. "We along with President Trump oppose an all-mail election process where voters are mailed ballots without a prior request and authentication."
Another North Carolina voter, from Wake County, expressed her concerns about the problems USPS is facing after receiving her form in the mail on Wednesday (8/12).
"My initial reaction was that I was kind of shocked, and laughed because of the irony of it, because Trump had been railing against mail-in voting, but here his party was, promoting it, and sending out an absentee ballot request form," Taylor Alexander said. "I think it's ridiculous that the funding is being cut and processes are being changed in the post office. People's lifesaving medication are days late, bills aren't being paid on time, and all for what? It's rigging the election."
Photos: John Herter