Summary
Donald Trump announced plans to reform U.S. elections, including mandating paper ballots, same-day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship, while eliminating mail-in voting.
Trump criticized California’s ban on requiring voter ID, calling for a nationwide overhaul. Though mail-in and early voting surged during the pandemic, Trump has long opposed these methods, claiming fraud, despite evidence showing fraud rates are extremely low.
Critics argue his proposals could disproportionately affect rural, disabled, and nonwhite voters, potentially disenfranchising key Democratic-leaning groups.
The reforms would mark significant shifts in U.S. election policies.
Jesus fuck. If this asshole gets rid of mail-in voting in Colorado…our voting system here is FANTASTIC.
The qons ruin every thing. They plan on making everyone miserable and breaking everything.
I thought Putin’s Sock Puppet and his neo-Nazi supporters want to increase state rights. Getting rid of the Electoral College should be the first step.
Not those states rights.
Wouldn’t he basically need a constitutional amendment to do this. Which would be almost impossible these days.
Yup. He can try for a reverse VRA but it’s going to be a pretty big fight if he does.
how hard can it be when you hold the Senate, Congress, and the supreme court?
Hard to say. voting is up to states for methodology but like we did have restrictions on state due to discrimation till recently that would not allow them to change their rules or purge voters like they do again nowadays.
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No. Federal government could always regulate elections. We used to require southern states to get federal governments permission before they can change their state election laws, so that they cant make racist election laws, but then the supreme court struck down that part of the Voting Right Act, then southern states immediately enacted Voter ID Laws.
Now that republicans have a trifecta in federal government, they are doing an uno reverse to regulate blue states like we used to regulate southern states.
The VRA was an extension of the fourteenth amendment. And the federal government never said the racist states had to do X. They said the states had to submit changes to the federal government to make sure they weren’t racist and thus unconstitutional.
Trump’s stuff doesn’t have any of that grounding.
Well if all the red and swing states do it, they will still win.
And you’ll have to wait 10 hours to vote on a workday because they’ve limited voting locations to one every million people - like they already do in Georgia.
lmao, democracy tm
This is why he wants to do that.
Thanks for putting that plain text from the top of the post into a jpeg down in the comments.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I couldn’t copy the plain text on jerboa, so I had to screen shot.
On Jerboa: Tap the three vertical dots menu in the original post, Copy > Copy post text.
Thank you!
they can also add rules to restrict the number of polling places, resulting in disproportionately long lines in cities where democrats live
When rural voters overwhelmingly voted for you, making it harder for them to vote seems like a great way to shoot yourself in the foot.
Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?
Often times yes, but they are in gerrymandered districts with adequate polling locations, plus they love to go out and vote for “their guy”
Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?
In some places only slightly. Like 55/45. So it would still affect Democrats.
Edit: I mention this because a lot of folks tend to assume rural areas are almost exclusively Republican and that’s very far from the truth even in super red states.
When he declared Nov would be the last election, and winning it meant they wouldn’t have to worry about elections again, he meant it!
He’s doing exactly what he said he would do.
Yup. When a fascist tells you they are a fascist, believe them.
Yeah, but something something genocide, so voting is bad actually
Shaming people for having deep moral quandries about voting for a candidate who is actively and directly facilitating genocide is pathetic and pointless and makes you look like a parody of yourself.
“mandating paper ballots… while eliminating mail-in voting.”
Does he not know mail in ballots are paper ballots? 🤔
The point is to eliminate voting options, the “justifications” are made up. Anything that moves closer to “not being able to vote” is the goal.
Paper ballots are also easier to falsify, with all the videos of box stuffing in corrupt countries.
That said, Canada uses paper ballots and hand counting, and I’m not aware of any accusations of election fraud related to that ever happening.
We also have a non-partisan federal elections agency. With individual US states in charge of running their own federal elections, there’s more room for Republican state-level government to cheat on the federal election
Suck my dick.
He’s already sucking putin’s
It’s hilarious to me that people in “non political” spaces like sportsball are now doing the donvict jerkoff dance.
But… I thought he said we wouldn’t have to vote ever again?
He also said we’d never hear from him again if he lost in 2020.
It’s because you’ll be standing in line waiting to vote instead.
Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like a bad idea to do something that disenfranchises people at the moment.
Except that some people walk around with a security detail that everyone else paid for.
No, no, by all means push more people to their breaking point. They’ve long done the “fuck around” part and I would love to be around to witness the “and find out” part.
Yeah it’s pretty funny cause these ghouls know only how to do one thing.
I feel like the next four years will have the energy of:
“The austerity will continue until moral and ceo shootings improve”.
Good luck with that.
“We’re gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time,” he said. “And we are gonna look at elections. We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship.”
This should come with a national day off for voting, and mandatory voting requirement.
Just the federal holiday would be enough. If someone is too lazy to vote when given a paid day off to do so, then I don’t trust they are informed enough to vote anyhow.
and voting location mandates per capita.
This motherfucker better be in a Popemobile 24/7. I got a bad feeling about this guy’s future existence.
Even one of his own tried to kill him
Weren’t they both registered Republicans?
They were.
Both? What did I miss?
I only know about the one who shot his ear this summer
There was a guy who hid in the bushes of a golf course for like half a day. He didn’t get any shots off, but was pretty close to before someone spotted the barrel poking out of the bush.
Yeah but then we get Incel-In-Chief JD Vance as president which is honestly MUCH scarier.
Just means they’re next in line.
I am forced to file taxes every year and being a US citizen fucks my ability to invest in the retirement plans here because they all end up being PFICs which the IRS heavily penalizes. Fuck you, you’re not taking my rights away. Forcing me to travel to not only the US, but to the state where I’m registered is not OK as that is thousands of dollars and days to accomplish.
fuck that, mail in voting has done so much good and it’s a prime step in stopping all this. if we had national mail in voting things would get better fast so no wonder they don’t want it.
what would this mean for states that already do this
I think we all know what the party of small government and states rights thinks of states doing things they don’t agree with.
A big part of why he lost in
20162020 was greatly expanded mail in voting. No surprise he wants to ban it.Did you typo? You mean 2020 right?
…Yes. Whoops! Edited.
Goodbye democracy. We barely knew thee …
Yeah, clearly opening the door to discuss further changes to the election process. It’s dying, and he doesn’t want more people voting, he wants less, if at all
Real “stop testing” energy here.
If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any
“If we just stop voting, we’d have very few votes against me”
Still following putin I see. Wait until he tries to change Presidential term limits.
