Trump trashed mail voting for months. He now says it’s great for Florida.

Although there is no difference between mail voting and absentee voting, as the president and some of his supporters assert, there is a difference between the kind of mail voting in Florida — which requires people to actively request mail ballots — and universal mail ballots, a system in which every registered voter in a state automatically gets a mail ballot. Last week, Trump focused his criticism on universal mail voting.