On Monday, Mr Trump was officially nominated as a formality to be the Republican nominee at his party's convention in the city of Charlotte.

Supporters cheered him, chanting: "Four more years!"

The president is due to give a formal acceptance speech to the party jamboree on Thursday. It is unusual for candidates to address the convention before that point as Mr Trump has done.

Addressing delegates in person at a party conference that has been dramatically scaled back by Covid-19, Mr Trump warned his fellow Republicans their opponents may "steal" November's election, as his party anointed him as their candidate.

"They're using Covid to defraud the American people," Mr Trump told delegates on the first day of the party convention in North Carolina. "The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election," he said. "We're going to win."

Mr Trump has repeatedly asserted that expanded mail-in voting - which is expected to happen at an unprecedented level due the coronavirus pandemic - will lead to "the most corrupt election" in US history.

But there is scant evidence of widespread voter fraud, and very few examples of any related criminal prosecutions.

Mail-in voting is used by the US military, and even Mr Trump himself and members of his family.

I agree with Trump, even despite fraud it's too risky to rely on the postal service to deliver so much mail in the time allowed. The US Mail itself, has cast doubts on its ability to distribute so much mail, bearing in mind that regular mail will still be in the system. Mail goes missing, delivered late, or even gets lost even in the most efficient postal companies.
If able bodied people can't get themselves down to the polling station with ID if that's required (and I think it should be) they should forfeit their vote. Using Covid as an excuse is pathetic! If people are too frightened to turn out, Donald should stay in office until they will go out.

The rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between 0.00004% and 0.0009%, according to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice.

Didn't they have postal voting in the past?

About 150,000 of the 1 million Union soldiers were able to vote absentee in the 1864 presidential election in what became the first widespread use of non-in-person voting in American history.

By World War II, every state let soldiers vote remotely and the military was responsible for about 3.2 million absentee ballots cast, which amounted to nearly seven percent of the total electorate in the 1944 presidential election, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a fourth term in the White House.

The U.S. military's done it since the Civil War.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...itary-n1186926



31,000,000 US voters cast their ballots by mail at the last Presidential election .....

It is expected that 80,000,000 will vote by mail this time .....

Trump is right. We see double voting here through postal votes by students voting once where they are studying then again by post from their home.

The risk of fraud where postal voting is horrendously high. IMO it should be discontinued. It is open to abuse in so many ways.