Trump requests mail-in ballot in Florida

Former President Donald Trump requested a mail-in ballot for a municipal election this week, according to Palm Beach County records, voting again by mail despite months of repeatedly promoting claims of election fraud.

Records from the Palm Beach County elections office, first reported by The Palm Beach Post, show that a mailin ballot for the town’s election this week was requested on Friday for the former president’s residence at Mar-aLago. The completed ballot was received Monday, before Tuesday’s election.

Trump joined at least 126,000 voters in Palm Beach County who had requested mail-in ballots as of Friday, accounting for more than one-third of eligible voters for Tuesday’s municipal election, according to The Palm Beach Post.

The county elections website shows that the request was made about a week past the Feb. 27 deadline for voters to request mail-in ballots. However, county rules state that mail-in ballots requested through Tuesday could be delivered at a voting site in-person.

Judy Lamey, a spokeswoman for the elections office, said that she could not comment on Trump’s ballot, citing a Florida statute prohibiting her from doing so. Trump spokesman Jason Miller did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning.

Despite his history of claiming that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud, it’s at least the third time Trump has voted by mail in recent years — the first in New York in 2018 and the other last March for Florida’s primary.