President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to attack Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s plan to send absentee ballot applications to qualified Michigan voters ahead of the August and November elections.
The president threatened federal funding for Michigan and erroneously said Benson planned to send absentee ballots, when the Detroit Democrat instead plans to send voters applications for the ballots ahead of the elections.
Benson announced Tuesday that she will mail all of Michigan’s 7.7 million voters an absentee voter application, an effort first employed in the May 5 election to curb in-person voting amid the coronavirus.
Benson said earlier this month she was focused on educating voters on their right to vote absentee for no reason, a move approved by voters in 2018.
But on Tuesday, Benson said her decision to send absentee ballot applications to every registered voter fulfills the “responsibility to provide all voters equal access,” Benson said.