Harvard Law Professor Brilliantly Takes Apart Trump’s “Vote Twice” Request With Amazing Analogy

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On Wednesday, Donald Trump encouraged those who cast votes by mail to cast two ballots in November’s election, one by mail and another in-person to check to see if the mailed vote was counted. That, of course, is illegal. And as a candidate, Trump did the same thing in 2016, too. Trump, who claims to be a “law and order” president, asked his supporters to break the law.

“Well, they’ll go out, and they’ll go vote, and they’re going to have to go and check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way, because if it tabulates, then they won’t be able to do that,” Trump said while standing in front of Air Force One. “So, let them send it in, and let them go vote, and if the system is as good as they say it is, then obviously they won’t be able to vote. If it isn’t tabulated, they won’t be able to vote. So that’s the way it is. And that’s what they should do.”

Trump told his supporters to commit voter fraud while he was in North Carolina, and now the state election board was forced to warn voters against casting more than one ballot.

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe took Trump’s call to vote twice to task by using a simple analogy.

Yeaaahh, you don’t counteract voter fraud by committing voter fraud. However, Trump said pretty much said something similar in 2016.

“You can check on your ballot to make sure it’s counted properly,” Trump said at the time. “You can go to [Greeley voting location] University Center, and they’ll give you a ballot, a new ballot. They’ll void your old ballot and give you a new ballot. And you can go out and make sure it gets in,” Trump said. “In some places, they probably do that four or five times, but we don’t do that.”

Trump sounds desperate.

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