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President Trump in a Sunday night tweet said that due to the "process" voters must go through to obtain an absentee ballot, such voting is safer than general mail-in balloting — and he pointed to a voter-fraud scandal out of New Jersey back in May as evidence that universal mail-in voting would cause widespread problems.The president's contention comes as he and Republicans across the country have…

The Wisconsin Elections Commission has agreed to mail out 2.7 million absentee ballot applications in the state ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Last week, the six-person panel was split on whether to mail the forms to nearly all registered voters, even those who hadn’t requested one. The bipartisan…