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Trump's grinning face and MAGA propaganda appears on absentee ballot request forms across US, outraging voters

Actor John Barrowman on September 12, posted a self-shot video of a woman holding up her form to show that it was covered by pictures of Trump and his campaign promises

After President Donald Trump said that he opposed crucial USPS funding because he did not want to see it used for mail-in voting coming November elections, voters from a number of states across the nation are complaining that they are receiving absentee ballot request forms with the POTUS' face on it as part of what is being slammed as 'propaganda for his campaign'. 

Actor John Barrowman on Saturday, September 12, posted a self-shot video of a woman holding up her form to show that it was covered by pictures of Trump and his campaign promises. Barrowman simply captioned the video, ''This is outrageous. JB."

"Okay so I am going to show you guys how I received my absentee ballot request form for the upcoming general election in November,'' a woman, who was not identified, said in the video. "I requested it like maybe two weeks ago. But here's the thing, I almost threw it away. Because this is what it looks like." The woman then holds up the ballot form to the screen with a sarcastic smile to show Trump's smiling face on the very cover page of the form. She then goes onto describe that when one opened up the form, they were met with yet more pictures of Trump before they can get to the information-filling part. 

''What the f**k is this?" she asks, fighting back angry tears. "How is this allowed? Why am I still asking that? Even the stuff that isn't allowed he gets away with. So, you know, whatever." It was not clear as to when the video was originally recorded or where was it shot as there was no time stamp, nor a mention of any state. Within hours JB's Twitter timeline was flooded with more people coming forward from different states who had similar experiences while ordering ballot request forms. 

When one user tried to disprove the woman in the video by suggesting, ''This is not an app for an absentee ballot sent by an election board. It is political advertising. If she requests a ballot from her election board, she'll get one & it won't be wrapped in adverts. Shouldn't use that one, it will be addressed to the Trump campaign & discarded,'' another person and potential voter from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, replied saying "Untrue. I received the same thing. the mail back address is the courthouse in our County Seat" along with a photo of a ballot form that was filled with Trump's political propaganda. 

There was also another user who retweeted a tweet she had originally posted on September 1, this time with the caption, "I got one of these the other day. I'm in gaetz's sh**hole district in floriDUH." The original tweet read, "Look at this bulls**t I got in the mail today. I feel filthy just having it in my mailbox" and multiple photos of a ballot form filled with the president's pictures, her Twitter handle clearly mentioning what she feels about Trump. Another called it 'voter manipulation'. 

Instances of voters receiving absentee ballot request forms filled with right-wing propaganda were initially noticed in North Carolina and CNN did a report on it last month. When words like 'Are you going to let the Democrats silence you? Act now to stand with President Trump' stared back at John Herter, a potential voter from Lincoln County, he said his wife exclaimed, "Is this a joke?"

Chandler Carranza, of Gaston County,  laughed at the irony, especially after watching Trump tell Fox News in an interview that he tried to restrict high levels of voting-by-mail amid the pandemic because he believed it is filled with fraud and abuse. "The irony is very thick and definitely not lost on me," Carranza told CNN. "Trump has been saying mail-in ballots will bring fraud to the election but absentee ballots are legit. Which is it? It can't be both ways. I laughed because if the campaign actually took information from other times they have reached out to me, they'd know I won't vote for Trump despite being a registered Republican." Carranza also tweeted pictures of the ballot form he received to prove his point. 

When CNN reached out to Thea McDonald, deputy national press secretary, regarding the voter complaints, she said, the mailer shows how it "is working to ensure voters in every state know how their state's sorting system works so that every eligible voter can cast their ballot and have their vote counted. President Trump has consistently and rightly said that where a voter cannot make it to the polls, they should request an absentee ballot. The president has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal mail-in voting systems, like the one that led to California's train wreck primary, and traditional absentee mail voting systems, like the tried and true system in North Carolina—a distinction Democrats and many in the mainstream media purposely ignore to sow confusion."