川普持續抨擊郵寄投票，但選務官員更有信心

布拉德・布魯克斯與內森・萊恩報導By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne

路透9月15日電——投票權倡議人士與選務官員週二表示，美國最高法院駁回總統唐納・川普限制郵寄選票的企圖，未必能阻止他繼續攻擊郵寄投票；不過，他們如今更有信心，認為這些行動不會干擾11月的期中選舉。Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail-in ballots is unlikely to stop his attacks on voting by mail, voting-rights advocates and election officials said on Tuesday, though they are more confident now those efforts will not disrupt November's midterm elections.

投票權倡議組織All Voting Is Local執行董事漢娜・弗里德（Hannah Fried）說：「我一年前比現在更害怕。」美國最高法院週一阻擋川普試圖對郵寄選票施加新限制；選務官員擔心，這些限制會在期中選舉前夕造成混亂。“I was more scared a year ago than I am now," said Hannah Fried, executive director of All Voting Is Local, a voting-rights advocacy group, after the Supreme Court on Monday blocked Trump's attempt to impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots that election officials feared would cause chaos in the run-up to the midterms.

不過，她仍預期川普會錯誤宣稱郵寄選票容易發生大規模舞弊；選務官員與法院已一再認定，這項說法缺乏證據。But, she still expected Trump to falsely claim that bail-in ballots were vulnerable to widespread fraud, an assertion that election officials and the courts have repeatedly found lacks evidence.

川普週二在Truth Social發文抨擊最高法院裁決時表示，美國有一場「徹底腐敗、失控的郵寄投票『災難』」。In a Truth Social post on Tuesday lashing out at the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said the U.S. had a "totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-in voting 'disaster.'"

川普提出的新規定原本將要求各州提供特定選民資料，並使用經郵政署核准、可透過條碼追蹤的郵寄選票信封。郵政署之後可拒絕寄送不符合新標準的選票，或與未出現在名單上的選民相關的選票。Trump's proposed new regulation would have required states to provide voter-specific data and use Postal Service-approved mail-ballot envelopes that would be tracked using barcodes. The Postal Service could then refuse to send out ballots that did not comply with the new standards or were associated with voters who do not appear on the lists.

郵寄投票已深植於美國人的投票方式。根據美國選舉協助委員會（U.S. Election Assistance Commission），約4,700萬人、約占選民32%，在2024年總統大選中以郵寄方式投票。麻省理工學院選舉資料與科學實驗室（MIT Election Data and Science Lab）的資料顯示，就全國而言，郵寄投票偏向民主黨：2024年有37%的民主黨人與24%的共和黨人以郵寄方式投票。Mail voting is deeply embedded in how Americans cast ballots. Some 47 million people, roughly 32% of the electorate, voted by mail in the 2024 presidential election, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Nationally, mail voting skews Democratic: 37% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans voted by mail in 2024, per the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

無黨派的選舉創新與研究中心（Center for Election Innovation and Research）執行董事大衛・貝克（David Becker）表示，川普關於郵寄投票的不實說法，已為地方選務官員製造不必要的挑戰。儘管如此，他指出，雖然郵寄投票數月來受到攻擊，今年的政黨初選全都順利進行。David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research, said Trump's false claims about mail-in voting have created unnecessary challenges for local election officials. Still, he noted that this year's party primaries had all gone smoothly, despite months of attacks on voting by mail.

被問及是否擔心川普的言論可能讓選舉程序陷入混亂時，貝克說：「我其實相當有信心不會。」Asked if he feared Trump’s rhetoric could inject chaos into the electoral process, Becker said “I’m actually rather confident it won’t.”

婦女選民聯盟（League of Women Voters）執行長席琳娜・史都華（Celina Stewart）表示，該組織的員工與志工正與全美50州選民交流；若要說有什麼影響，川普對郵寄投票的攻擊似乎正在促使更多人制定具體投票計畫，無論是郵寄投票或親自投票。Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters, said the organization's staff and volunteers were speaking with voters in all 50 states and that, if anything, Trump's attacks on mail-in voting appeared to be motivating more people to make concrete plans to cast a ballot, whether by mail or in person.

俄亥俄州共和黨策略人士麥特・多爾（Matt Dole）表示，儘管川普在這項議題上發表相關言論，他預期不會在期中選舉中出現大規模的舞弊指控。Matt Dole, a Republican strategist in Ohio, said that despite Trump’s rhetoric on the issue, he did not anticipate widespread claims of fraud in the midterms.

密西根州奧克蘭郡郡書記、首席選務行政官麗莎・布朗（Lisa Brown）表示，選民主要擔心的只是郵寄投票是否仍會是一項選擇，而不是其正當性。Lisa Brown, clerk of Michigan's Oakland County, the chief election administrator, said voters' main worry was simply whether mail voting would remain an option, not its legitimacy.

被問及是否擔心川普已為11月若共和黨失去國會一院或兩院控制權時宣稱舞弊預先鋪路，布朗指出，他過去的指控從未獲得證實。Asked whether she was concerned Trump had laid the groundwork to claim fraud in November should his party lose control of one or both chambers of Congress, Brown noted that his previous allegations were never substantiated.

她說：「他在2020年提出舞弊指控，但從來沒有任何證據。那場選舉是準確、安全且公平的。他想提出什麼指控都可以，但這不會改變我們程序的安全性與準確性。」"He made claims of fraud in 2020. There was never any proof of that. That election was accurate, secure, and fair,” she said. “He can make whatever claims he wants. It doesn’t change how secure and accurate our process is.”

（內森・萊恩密西根州、布拉德・布魯克斯科羅拉多州報導；安迪・蘇利文華盛頓補充報導；羅斯・科爾文與丹尼爾・華利斯編輯）(Reporting by Nathan Layne in Michigan and Brad Brooks in Colorado; Additional reporting by Andy Sullivan in Washington; Editing by Ross Colvin and Daniel Wallis)