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Trump and first lady Melania Trump have requested Florida absentee ballots, as the president simultaneously opposes more funding for the U.S. Postal Service to help it handle the swell of mail-in ballots this fall.

Trump has tried to make a distinction between absentee ballots, in which people who are away from their home state vote by mail, and the decision by many states to allow anyone to vote by mail if they’re afraid to vote in person because of coronavirus health risks.

“Absentee ballots, by the way, are fine,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “But the universal mail-ins that are just sent all over the place, where people can grab them and grab stacks of them, and sign them and do whatever you want, that’s the thing we’re against.”

There is no evidence that voting by mail leads to significant fraudulent voting.