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At former President Donald Trump's Fox News town hall this week, a woman named Alicia stood up to ask a question, noting she was from Fulton, Georgia.
"Where I cast my vote for you today," she added. "I hope they count it."
Trump has spent years spreading lies and misinformation about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. And as part of that, he has repeatedly argued against early voting, at one point insisting, "the Democrats used Covid inspired Mail In Ballots to CHEAT."
"I would rather see one-day voting, paper ballots, voter ID, and proof of citizenship, and we have a nice, honest election," Trump has said.
While the Republican National Committee has filed numerous lawsuits targeting mail-in ballot deadlines, the GOP and Trump campaign have supported expanding voting when they see fit. After Hurricane Helene, the Trump campaign laid out proposals in North Carolina to expand access to voting for people hit hard in Western North Carolina, where Trump needs to perform well if he is to win the state and the state board of elections largely adopted them.
And even Trump himself has been all over the place on the issue, telling his supporters at a Pennsylvania rally last month to "go out, make a plan to vote early, vote absentee or vote in-person on election day." He then undermined his own plea, wondering in the same speech, "Now we have this stupid stuff where you can vote 45 days early…I wonder what the hell happens during…[those] 45 [days]."
It was evident at the Fox News town hall — which was before an all-female audience and ostensibly focused on women's issues — that many of the Republican attendees had a more nuanced view about early voting.
Kelly Murphy and her daughter Ashley told The Independent they were voting on Wednesday, the first day after in-person early voting in Georgia began.
"We all have been door-knocking, and we've been texting people. We've been on different groups where we're able to educate people about the choices they have to choose from," Emily Harris, the vice president of the Republican Women of Forsyth County, told The Independent.
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