President Donald Trump is now saying the 2020 presidential election may have to be done twice if universal mail-in voting is allowed. Trump claimed this after he was asked about his feud with the Democrats during a posthumous presidential pardon for women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, Mediaite reports.

“The Democrats want to make it a political issue. It’s not a political issue, it’s really about a correct vote,” he said. “You have to get voting right. You can’t have millions and millions of ballots sent all over the place, sent to people that are dead, sent to dogs, cats. Sent to everyone. This is a serious situation, this isn’t games, and you have to get it right.”

I’ll concede he has half a point here, but ballots being sent to Fido and Fluffy? Really? C’mon. That seems like a big stretch.

Trump doesn’t seem to be worried about voting machines, however. This is interesting since Russia hacked them in at least 39 states during the 2016 presidential election, Vox reports. But the president made no mention of this and instead railed against the idea of mail-in ballots, claiming the 2020 election will be “rigged” if they are allowed.

But, according to U.S. PIRG, a watchdog group that advocates for the public interest, mail-in ballots, which have been implemented by most states in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, are quite safe and secure. And Joe Ready, Director of Democracy for the People Campaign, and an advocate for the group has decided to school Trump especially after he posted a tweet (which Twitter also called him out for) that’s patently ridiculous.

There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

“That’s simply false,” Ready noted.

“Study after study shows there’s no evidence of significant widespread voter fraud or security issues associated with vote-by-mail.”

He cited a Washington Post and Electronic Registration Information Center analysis that looked at three vote-by-mail states that found that out of 14.6 million votes during the 2016 and 2018, officials only identified 372 potential cases of improper voting or only 0.0025 percent. Out of all those votes. Pretty amazing.

But Trump wants you to think differently. He’s appearing to be altruistic even though everyone except the dumbest people — his supporters — can see right through him.

“I just want to get it right,” he told reporters. “Win, lose, or draw — I think I’m going to win — win, lose or draw. we have to get it right,” he said insistently. “We have to have honest voting.”

“You can’t take millions of ballots, send them haphazardly all over the country, or all over a state, and expect it to come out properly,” he added, but then attempted to clarify his remarks by saying, “By the way, absentee is great, it’s been working for a long time like in Florida. Absentee, you request and it comes in, and then you send it back. Absentee is great, but universal is going to be a disaster the likes of which our country has never seen.”

However, The Washington Post points out there’s relatively little difference between absentee- and mail-in voting. It mainly comes down to how individual states work this out.

All that is lost on Trump, who wrapped up his remarks by saying:

“It’ll end up being a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome. They’ll have to do it again, and nobody wants that,” he said. “And I don’t want that.”

But what happens if Trump wins (perish the thought) but the election is rigged? Is he still going to want a recount? Or another election? My guess is no.

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