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Seeds of doubt in 2020 to bloom in 2024

Trump began seeding doubt in 2020 by pointing to mail-in voting as evidence the election was being stolen months beforehand.

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, many states were quickly changing the rules around voting by mail,
allowing expanded access because it was not clear if it would be safe to vote in person on election day.

This year, Americans are unlikely to use mail-in voting at the same levels they did during the pandemic,
and Republicans are now encouraging their supporters to take advantage of it.

But Trump and allies are using a new messaging tactic in its place: that there are scores of non-citizens and other ineligible people on the voter rolls.

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