US president Donald Trump has lashed out at plans to roll out widespread mail-in voting in Michigan and Nevada, and threatened to hold up federal funding “if they want to go down this voter fraud path”.
The practicalities of voting in the coronavirus pandemic have emerged as a divisive issue in US political life, especially after Wisconsin pressed ahead with in-person voting last month at the urging of the state’s Republicans.
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state, said on Tuesday that every registered voter in the state would receive an application for an absentee ballot so they could take part in elections in August and November without appearing at a polling station.