Trump vows to try banning mail-in voting before 2026 midterm elections — can he do that?
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President Trump says he plans to sign an executive order "to end mail-in ballots, because they're corrupt." Here's what to know about his claims.

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.”

  • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    193·
    15 hours ago

    A reminder to our American friends, Trump is a symptom of 30 years of policies, you all had plenty of time to change things.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Given fox news and the republican main stream media was created to prevent the next Nixon from resigning, this is like a 60 year plot by a bunch of boomers.

    • RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      I understand that sentiment and it’s very much deserved, but a good portion of our fellow countrymen have been literally taught to hate any critical thinking or logic and “look what I’m going to do piss off the left” and honestly our left is pretty center right compared to most of world.

      There are of us that are working at it, but honestly we may have to fix how the government has suffered industry capture through deregulation for decades and teaching people (who hopefully will listen) is not going to happen fast at all.

      We got a lot of work to do I hope we can, but honestly things aren’t looking the greatest right now and we definitely shouldn’t be taken at our word brill we establish a history of doing the right thing.

      It’s going to get worse before it’s gets better the US is fucked at the moment but open for business if you’re a dictator or billionaire class.

      The genie may not be able to hi back in the bottle though with the trend of countries going alt-right and the US is definitely not helping on that front either.

      We are trying, but seriously don’t count on us in completing that task we are owned by billionaires and tech companies and I’m not sure our government and elected officials are willing to give up on all that sweet “political donations” money unchecked sadly…