U.S. Voting Rules and Election Policy

President Trump cast and returned a mail ballot in a Palm Beach County special election that was counted, even as he publicly denounces mail-in voting as "cheating" and "corrupt" and pushes the SAVE America Act to severely limit mail ballots. The White House, via spokeswoman Olivia Wales, defended his absentee status as consistent with the bill — which would allow mail voting only for illness, disability, military service or travel — while a Brookings estimate cited by PBS finds mail-voting fraud to be vanishingly rare (about 0.000043% of mail ballots), undermining broad claims of widespread fraud.