Elon Musk says all voting should be 'in person' while his super PAC promotes voting by mail
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Friday that all voting should be “in person,” contradicting his own history of voting by mail and the efforts of his pro-Trump super PAC to get others to vote by mail, too.
During a wide-ranging town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, where Musk is campaigning for former President Donald Trump, Musk said he was concerned about potential voter fraud unless people cast ballots in a specific way: on paper, in person and with a form of identification.
“In my opinion, we should have paper ballots only. It should be in-person voting with ID. End of story,” Musk said, according to a livestream of the event.
The audience cheered and applauded Musk’s answer, which came after he promoted a debunked conspiracy theory related to the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems at a Thursday town hall event. Musk said Thursday that Dominion was part of a plot to rig elections, an allegation the company disputed and that’s similar to one that the company has sued others over.
Voting by mail or absentee ballot has become commonplace in some jurisdictions, and there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States, either by mail or other means.
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