Trump Suggests That Election Officials Will Throw Away Mail-In Ballots

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, in Golden, Colo. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Donald Trump suggested in a speech at a Colorado rally on Saturday that election officials will throw away mail-in ballots if they don’t “like” them.

“I have real problems with ballots being sent,” Trump said, according to a transcript by NBC’s Ali Vitali and Emily Gold. “People say, oh, here’s a ballot, bing. Here’s another ballot, throw it away. Oh, here’s one I like, we’ll keep that one.”

Trump claimed that there are “a lot of people” watching election officials.

“We’re trying to have some pretty good supervision out there,” he said. “We have a lot of people watching you people that collect the ballots.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the election will be rigged against him. His repeated calls for vigilante poll watchers drew attention to the consent decree the Republican National Committee signed in 1982, which banned the “ballot security efforts” that Trump has encouraged from his supporters.

On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee asked a federal court to hold the RNC in contempt of court for allegedly violating the same consent decree, and to block any coordination between Trump and the RNC that relates to Election Day poll monitoring activities.

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  1. Might as well just not cast your vote if you’re a Republican. The system is too rigged against you. You can’t even make up for it by voting twice. So unfair.

  2. Avatar for quin quin says:

    This is what a piece of human garbage does when he is losing. The sickest part of this election is that more than 1% of the population would actually think that repeating Make America Great Again with no policies, no plans, no knowledge just his fat orange body topped with a Pomeranian and his short fat fingers groping every woman who comes within striking distance is what it takes.

  3. Trump’s lucky he’s in America – there are some places out there where he’d be in big trouble for treasonous words.

  4. here’s the trouble with that thought…

    throwing away 100K mail in ballots for Hillary would make a pretty big pile and someone would likely notice…

    throw away the two ballots for Cheeto Donnie then you’d probably get away with it pretty easily…

  5. “People say, oh, here’s a ballot, bing. Here’s another ballot, throw it away. Oh, here’s one I like, we’ll keep that one.”

    Now he is projecting his groping thought process on election officials who are mostly Republican. “Here is another woman. Look at that face. Throw her away. Oh. Here’s one I like. Quick. Give me a tic tac.”

    (Edit) Just now Trump referred to the “sleaze” Wiener, and the crowd went nuts. You gotta love the irony… and Wiener never sexually assaulted anyone as far as we know.

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