Twitter has
placed a public interest notice on two of Trump’s tweets about encouraging
voters to cast two ballots in November.
“We placed
a public interest notice on two Tweets in this thread for violating our Civic
Integrity Policy, specifically for encouraging people to potentially vote
twice,” Twitter said.
“Per our
policies, this Tweet will remain on the service given its relevance to ongoing
public conversation. Engagements with the Tweet will be limited. People will be
able to Quote Tweet, but not Like, Reply, or Retweet it.”
The
president’s tweets were an apparent attempt to clean up his comments yesterday
on voting twice. During his trip to North Carolina, Trump said of voting by
mail, “Let them send it in and let them go vote. And if the system is as good
as they say it is then obviously they won’t be able to vote” in person.
The
president later claimed he was simply encouraging people to ensure their votes
are tabulated if they mail in their ballots.
But the
North Carolina board of elections specifically discouraged people from going to
polling places on Election Day to verify their ballots were counted.
“The State
Board office strongly discourages people from showing up at the polls on
Election Day to check whether their absentee ballot was counted,” Karen Brinson
Bell, the executive director of the board, said in a statement. “That is not
necessary, and it would lead to longer lines and the possibility of spreading
COVID-19.”
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