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Trump's Mail-In Voting Claims Debunked by California Officials
9/13/2025
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Story summary
- President Trump falsely claimed that mail-in voting in California is “rigged” and that the state lacks ballot boxes during a Fox News interview.
- Governor Gavin Newsom labeled Trump's statements as “an outright lie.”
- Experts confirm mail-in voting is legitimate, with low fraud rates, and California verifies voter identity through signature matching.
- Trump misrepresented a commission's findings, which did not deem mail-in voting corrupt.
- California has about 22.6 million registered voters, not 38 million ballots sent out.
