What did Donald Trump do today?

He voted by mail, which he thinks other Americans shouldn't be allowed to do.

Trump's ballot in Florida primary elections was counted today. As he almost always does, he cast it by mail, like roughly one-third of Americans do. Voters in eight states plus the District of Columbia vote primarily by mail, which increases the number of Americans able to participate in elections and makes for more representative governments.

But Trump has lied over and over again about the possibility of fraudulent votes being cast by mail. In reality, it is incredibly rare, on the order of single-digit numbers of ballots per tens of millions of votes. 

One way of looking at it is that Donald Trump has personally been convicted of more felonies than there are hypothetical cases of mail voting fraud in any major election year according to exhaustive studies done by the Brookings Institute and the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation.

Reporters asked about the apparent contradiction, and were told by the White House communications team that it was a "non-story." A spokesperson said that Trump's anti-voting stance had "commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel."

But none of these exceptions apply clearly to Trump. As arguably the most famous draft-dodger of all time, he is certainly not in the military. He claims not to be ill or disabled, all evidence to the contrary. And while it is legal for Trump to spend most of his time in Washington but vote in Palm Springs, he's not really "traveling" when he's at the White House.

Of course, Trump never would have intended for any policy restricting voting to apply to him, even if he can't always remember who it is he supports in any given race. But the ones he wants to put in place through the so-called SAVE Act would instantly disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans nationwide who are legally entitled to vote—including many who had voted for him.

Why does this matter?

• In a democracy, voters choose the politicians, not the other way around.  

• More Americans being able to participate in elections is always a good thing, no matter what Donald Trump thinks.