Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump’s false narrative on election fraud

Donald Trump this week claimed without evidence that anyone living overseas can get a ballot mailed to them, even if they are not eligible to vote, falsely accusing Democrats of subverting a 1986 law to win in November.

The former Republican president’s allegation focuses on the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or UOCAVA, which protects the rights of U.S. citizens living abroad, including members of the military and their families, to vote in federal elections by absentee ballot. UOCAVA was amended in 2009 by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, or MOVE, which added more protections.

Trump claimed that Democrats will “use UOCAVA to get ballots, a program that emails ballots overseas without any citizenship check or verification of identity, whatsoever” and that “anyone can get a ballot emailed to them!” Trump also suggested that this might indicate “foreign interference” in the 2024 election.

“The Democrats are talking about how they’re working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas,” he posted Monday on his Truth Social platform. “Actually, they are getting ready to CHEAT!”

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