Trump demands emergency voter changes in hurricane-ravaged NC after years of slamming them
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump is making an abrupt about-face, and demanding last-minute emergency changes to the voting system in North Carolina, in the aftermath of the disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. According to Politico's Meredith McGraw, the Trump campaign called for several voter access expansions in western North Carolina, including countywide early voting, expanded vote-by-mail procedures, expanded early in-person voting hours, expanded Sunday voting, and waiving the residency requirement for poll workers. The calls represent a sharp turn from years of Trump and the GOP attacking pandemic-era emergency voting access expansions, particularly to mail-in voting, which they claimed was illegal and an effort to rig the election — all of which continues to this day to hurt GOP efforts to get more voters to cast ballots by mail. “We have got three ways to vote now: Early voting, vote by mail and voting on Election Day," Trump's running mate Sen. J.D.
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