Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.
“We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.”
The states run their elections, the president has no say in this.
Somehow I don’t think he cares.
Some of the red state governors will probably roll over. I hope all the other states tell him to shove it.
He’s banking on that, so he can have Congress throw out the votes from those states because “they didn’t follow the rules”
Mail in ballots still lean Republican many places, I understand. In Texas, for example, mostly older people use mail in ballots, and that group trends more Republican than Texas voters at large
They’re not going to fuck up and ban their own votes. They’ll come up with some criteria for exclusions that keep the places and demographics they count on and spin it as pursuing some other principle than naked partisanship.
“Some”?
Found the optimist!
Watch him
This is just an excuse to pressure weak liberal governments into caving to fascism.
Trump barks, then Gretchen Whitmer throws up her hands in surrender. And in another two years, it’ll be those stupid disenfranchised voters who just didn’t try hard enough who are to blame.
Fuck that noise. WA has been 100% mail in ballots for over a decade. We aren’t about to bin our entire election system and build a completely new infrastructure because Trump is trying to overreach his authority. Will. Not. Happen.
The left and conceding defeat before anything even happens. Name a more iconic duo.
:-/
Bro you just invented an entirely made up scenario just so you could shit on democrats.
It’s like being mad at your spouse because they cheated on you in a dream.
Who was to blame for getting us in this situation in the first place?
Then us franchised voters need to stand up and help them
“Just Vote Harder!”
:-/
oh okay, i’ll call him and let him know.
Doesn’t the state run their own policing too?
How’d that work for DC?
Edit: I actually didn’t know any of that, I don’t live in the states. Glad to see there’s a legitimate legal process for the president to take advantage of his subordinates
DC isn’t a state, which is a different level of fuckery.
A better comparison is LA
Even then, he activated the National Guard, which is a Constitutional power.
DC isn’t a state on purpose. The federal government through Congress has full control of the district.
DC was set up specifically to be under federal control because reasons. They’ve let the city do its own things for a little while, but ultimately the Fed has legal control.