Trump Aide Deletes Tweet Telling PA Voters To Change Early Votes By Phone

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A Donald Trump aide tweeted—then quickly deleted—a message Tuesday morning suggesting Pennsylvania voters could change their votes for Hillary Clinton into votes for Donald Trump by calling a number.

According to a report from The Hill, Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino, sent a tweet reading “We hear you Pennsylvania! Nobody likes to be duped! You can change your early VOTE by calling 1-877-868-3772. Join the MOVEMENT. LETS #MAGA!”

Pennsylvania does not offer in-person early voting, but does offer mail-in absentee ballots. These ballots can only be obtained if the voter is unable to make it to his or her polling place on Election Day because of travel for work, or because of an illness or disability.

If a voter already submitted an absentee ballot and then finds her or she is able to vote in person on November 8th after all, he or she must appear and vote in person, notifying the poll worker of the absentee ballot. The absentee ballot would then be thrown out. Despite the phrasing of Scavino’s original tweet, which listed the phone number for the state’s Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation, Pennsylvania voters cannot change their vote by phone.

Scavino later rephrased the tweet to include more states and mention absentee voting:

Whether or not a voter can “change” his or her early or absentee vote varies by state.

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  1. Rigged election, my ass.

  2. “Let’s #MAGA!”

    Maga? Isn’t that some sort of Japanese anime thing?

  3. Thanks Scavino! I will now start an effort to investigate people who submitted absentee ballots here in PA and then are able to show up to vote in person because that would mean that, with few exceptions, they lied on their absentee ballot application about their inability to vote in person on election day!

    I sure do appreciate help from crooked 'pubs whenever I get it!

  4. Did you call the number TPM? I would think that would be the first thing you’d do…

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    They’ll be tweeting the same crap on November 9 after they lose.

    Putin couldn’t have found a better person or party to destabilize our Democracy.

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