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When President Donald Trump wrote on social media in August that there should be "no mail-in voting" and that Americans should "USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY," he appeared to contradict the efforts of Republican officials and activists across the country who have spent the last several years encouraging Republicans to embrace absentee voting.
Voting by mail as permitted by the laws of your state is legal. In his sweeping executive order, Trump tried to bully states into not counting ballots properly received after Election Day under state law by threatening to withhold federal funding. A federal court has temporarily blocked this part of the executive order.
Conservatives want mail-in ballots to be counted no later than Election Day. Illinois allows ballots postmarked or certified by Election Day to be counted up to 14 days after the election.