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.”
Forging paper ballots is actually much harder than forging electronic ballots. That’s why he fights them so much.
Headlines should say “In desperate bid to keep unpopular republicans in the house, Trump attempts to unlawfully ban mail in voting”
He’s so dumb. Denouncing mail-in voting cost him in 2020 and they reversed course in 2024. Now they’re against it again?
Because Trump is a powerful man with his own intelligent ideas, of course he came to his own decision to get rid of mail in voting only single day after being told to by Putin.
- Idiots
When he’s up in the polls, easier voting m helps him , when he’s down in the polls it’s a danger.
There is a base of perpetually mobilized voters who will show up through hell and high water for him, but, it’s not enough to win against opposition when they’re able to mobilize voters.
A reminder to our American friends, Trump is a symptom of 30 years of policies, you all had plenty of time to change things.
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.
And here I just went back to the Reagan era…
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…
Yes yes but what about Esptein files?
Why are politicians allowed to decide on voting rules on their own? In my country these matters are decided by an Electoral Comission, which is composed of public officials, with varied political affiliations. Changes to major rules must be approved by congress by a qualified majority (2/3 I believe).
Voting is controlled by the states. This is just another example of trump trying to break the laws while threatening a tantrum if he doesn’t get his way.
Who else would do it?
With that said, each state in the US decides how voting is done. Yes there are Federal Laws that mandate things.
I guess Trump can get legislation passed, but we shall see. Trump has been working on Infrastructure for 9 years now….
He’s scared. Simple as. We had him begging Texas to redistrict, now this, he’s down in polls… he knows that he’ll lose ground next year. A democratic majority in the house or senate would be devastating for him, and that’s where things are headed right now.
For people that don’t know. Voting by mail is older than the US. In 1775 the continental army wanted to have their votes counted while away. We’ve had mail in and absentee voting since.
And that’s just US history.
States rights preserved to run elections how they see fit amirite
The world’s sorest LOSER.
OK so does he want to:
- Distract attention
- Corrupt the next election
- something else suiting his needs?
Yes
I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the Russian Federation, and to the Kremlin, for which it stands, one nation, under Putin, for slavery and injustice for all.
I’ll even try to rug the next election to distract from the trump/Epstein files!
Whatever. Elections don’t matter anymore.
