Trump, skeptical of mail-in balloting, encourages voting more than once if necessary

Donald Trump is not letting up on his claims that the election could be rigged against him.

During a rally in Greeley, Colorado, on Sunday evening, Trump opened the event expressing skepticism of mail-in ballots in the state. He encouraged people to get a new ballot, even if they have already sent one in, and vote again.

“Who has sent their ballots in? And do you think those ballots are properly counted?” Trump asked the audience, to which they replied “No!”

Trump continued by expressing his skepticism and telling supporters to go get new ballots to ensure their vote is counted.

“If you go to university center, they’ll give you a new ballot, they’ll void your old ballot, in some places they do that four or five times, so by tomorrow, almost everyone will have their new ballots in.”

For weeks, Trump has made the topic of election rigging and voter fraud a main talking point in his stump speeches. He encourages his supporters to sign up on his website to be “poll watchers” and says that if he loses on November 8, it will be because the race was rigged.

Supporters of Trump have been heeding his advice thus far during early voting. A woman in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested Thursday and charged with voter fraud after she allegedly voted for Donald Trump a second time at a second polling place out of concern that her first vote for Trump would be counted for Hillary Clinton instead.

“I wasn’t planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment,” Terry Lynn Rote told The Washington Post, while echoing Trump’s theory that “the polls are rigged.”

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