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Donald Trump clarifies that when he told people in North Carolina to vote twice, he meant that they should vote twice.

If he was soliciting voter fraud, that’s actually illegal in and of itself.

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As the Washington Post and the New York Times so delicately put it, Trump yesterday sought to clarify remarks he made late the previous day, in which he told supporters in North Carolina to vote twice.

Which is very much against the law.

And by clarify, they must have meant repeat. Because what he told supporters yesterday on Twitter was to vote twice, first by mail and then in person. Just to make sure their postal vote got counted, you see.

Twitter put a warning label on Trump’s posts, saying they violated the company’s policies around election integrity.

But they left the post up because they said doing so was “in the public interest”

Facebook said it would delete a video of Trump’s original comments telling people to vote twice, unless it was shared in order to correct the record.

Forgive us if we’re repeating ourselves here, but it sure seems like when Trump complains about the upcoming election being rigged, it’s because he’s doing his damndest to make it so.

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The executive director of North Carolina’s board of elections said in a statement yesterday that checks would be in place to prevent double voting, which is illegal.

It’s also illegal to solicit someone to vote twice, but who will dare bring charges against Trump for this?

North Carolina’s board of elections also urged people not to follow Trump’s instructions and line up on election day to check that their mail-in ballots had been counted, for two reasons.

One, it’s not necessary. And two, it could spread coronavirus.

What a mess, cripes.