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'Follow Your Vote,' Trump Tells Mail-in Ballot Voters

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - President Donald Trump has introduced more confusion into
   what already stands to be America's most difficult presidential
   election in modern times by suggesting -- and then partly backing away
   from -- a legally dubious scheme in which his supporters would try to
   vote twice in order to test voting safeguards.

   "Let them send it in and let them go vote," Trump said in an interview
   on Wednesday with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina. "And if the
   system is as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able
   to vote" in person.

   On Thursday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Trump seemingly amended his
   remarks to say his followers should only vote a second time if their
   first vote was not counted.

   "Sign your mail-in ballot '¦ and send it in," Trump told a crowd of
   invited supporters in a Latrobe airport hangar. "And then you have to
   follow it. And if on Election Day or early voting, that if it is not
   tabulated or counted, you go vote."

   The president added, "You have to make sure your vote counts."

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