If you'll permit me a pedantic "well, actually" thread... #Actually, absentee voting and mail voting ARE different.
1. The way Trump seems to be distinguishing them, "mail voting" = a state mails everyone a ballot automatically. "Absentee voting" = voters have to proactively request a ballot. You may prefer the former or the latter setup, but there IS a difference.
2. Absentee voting can be done in person; many states simply have "in-person absentee voting" in lieu of early voting. When you see stats like "X% of votes were absentees" that doesn't mean X% were mailed in.
To be clear, neither mail voting nor absentee voting leads to election fraud, as the president is claiming.
Also, mail voting of the kind Trump is railing against is only happening in 7 states plus DC this year—none of which are swing states. So there is no reason to think it will affect the outcome. (Plus, mail voting doesn't advantage Democrats anyway: fivethirtyeight.com/features/there…)
