Trump calls for DOJ investigation after mail ballot error in Maryland - BERITAJA

President Donald Trump connected Monday said he will inquire the Department of Justice to analyse a caller message ballot correction successful Maryland, pushing unsubstantiated claims that it was the consequence of fraud.

Maryland predetermination officials are reissuing about a half-million message ballots aft saying past Friday a vendor rumor led to immoderate voters receiving a superior ballot for the incorrect party. Since predetermination officials cannot find who received the incorrect ballot, the authorities is sending each perchance affected voters caller ballots.

In a Truth Social station connected Friday, Trump said: “In Maryland, they sent retired 500,000 Illegal Mail In Ballots, and they sewage caught! So now, they’re going to nonstop retired 500,000 much Mail In Ballots, but cipher knows what’s happening pinch the first 500,000 they sent.”

But the State Board of Elections had antecedently said the first ballots will beryllium sequestered and voided, and only the replacement ballots will beryllium formed and counted.

“There is nary consequence of copy voting arsenic a consequence of this issue. Election officials person safeguards successful spot to guarantee that only 1 ballot could beryllium accepted per voter. Every return envelope/oath has a unsocial identifier to guarantee that a elector could only ballot 1 ballot. SBE has implemented further safeguards to guarantee only the correct ballot is counted for each voter,” the committee said successful a release connected Monday.

The correction was made by a printing company, authorities predetermination officials said, who will beryllium paying for the reissued ballots. Maryland’s superior is group to return spot June 23.

The telephone for a DOJ investigation marks Trump’s latest onslaught connected message balloting, which person agelong been astatine the halfway of his mendacious claims of predetermination fraud. An executive bid Trump signed earlier this year was geared toward restricting message voting.

In his Truth Social post, Trump besides singled retired Democratic Gov. Wes Moore arsenic “corrupt.”

Maryland State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis, a spokesperson for Moore and the DOJ did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.