US Donald Trump reverses comments suggesting voters cast votes twice

American President, Donald Trump on Thursday said that people voting by mail should go to the polls to ensure their votes were counted.

OnyxNews Nigeria learnt that Trump was speaking earlier today after controversial comments in which he suggested voting twice.

Trump wrote in a series of tweets, “In order for you to MAKE SURE YOUR VOTE COUNTS & IS COUNTED, SIGN & MAIL IN your Ballot as EARLY as possible.

“On Election Day, or Early Voting, go to your Polling Place to see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted).

“If it has, you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly. If it has not been Counted, VOTE (which is a citizen’s right to do),” Trump tweeted.

OnyxNews Nigeria also gathered that during a visit to North Carolina on Wednesday, president Trump suggested voters cast ballots twice.

Speaking to local television channel WCET: “Let them send it in and let them go vote and if their system’s as good as they say it is they say it is, then obviously they won’t be able to vote.”

Under U.S. law, someone voting more than once could be fined 10,000 dollars or be imprisoned for up to five years. Such an action would also be a felony in North Carolina and other states. Trump has argued repeatedly that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to voter fraud, though there is no clear evidence to support the idea.

Many U.S. voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail instead of going to a polling station in the November presidential election so as to prevent contracting coronavirus disease.