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Fact-check: Michigan is not sending absentee ballots to every registered voter
Read full article: Fact-check: Michigan is not sending absentee ballots to every registered voterDETROIT In a tweet Wednesday, President Trump threatened to hold up funding to Michigan, claiming the Secretary of State was illegally sending absentee ballots to all voters. Michigan is not sending absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of elections this year. On Tuesday, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced the state would send applications to vote by mail to every registered voter, not a ballot. Congress included $400 million in election funding in a previous coronavirus relief bill, but estimates of the total cost to expand mail voting and make in-person voting safer have run as high as $4 billion. Related: AP Fact Check: President Trumps rhetoric on voter fraud is misleadingAfter review, we've found this claim is Not True.