Blatantly unconstitutional. The voting is directly controlled by the state constitutions, not the fed. Even congress would need to amend the constitution to do this, but we’ll see how the bench legislators in SCOTUS rule.
The Constitution no longer matters when all branches of power fail to uphold it and instead collude with the Orange King.
Republicans seems to interpret the constitution like christians interpret the bible
Aka. they don’t even read it.
tbf, i don’t think most of us have read it since grade school. that said, at least some of us respect it.
Congress could probably do it, but it would have to be functional to do so. Which it very much is not.
Among other serious problems, this would disenfranchise all military service members stationed or deployed outside their home state. The Democrats really should be making a big deal out of that.
“Oh but it’s not going to effect them at all because you see, they’re using absentee ballots which are a totally different and completely secure thing.”
Actual talking point I’ve seen floating around already.
Okay! Then let’s just switch everyone over to those! Can’t wait to hear how that’s impossible for reasons.
No, this is one we should be concerned about. Eliminate mail-in voting, and democrats won’t win another election again. The vast majority of people vote by mail.
He can’t eliminate mail-in voting by executive order.
And before you say ‘he doesn’t care about the law he’ll do it anyway,’ no state that isn’t already fallen to the crazy will acknowledge such an order.
This is an obvious distraction. One you are falling for.
as if it even matters at this point
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Gonna have to draft a constitutional amendment dumass
He’ll just shut down USPS for the 6 weeks leading up to the next election.
Oregon has been entirely state-wide mail-in voting for decades. Good luck shutting down an entire state’s mail for more than a month.
I mean, it already worked didn’t it?
First term the USPS was taken from a trusted, consistent, and reliable way to move mail. I to something that a considerable number of people no longer trust BECAUSE it was sabotaged.
All he has to do is continue sabotaging our institutions, then they will no longer be effective, and can be cut down with public approval. Since voters have the memories of gnats.
It doesn’t need to shut down, it just needs to be made ineffective, gutted, and sold to UPS & FedEx for pennies on the dollar. So private corps can benefit from our public investments, to our detriment.
“STatE rIGhtS”
Traitor. Destroying America at every turn. And not in a good way.
When are they ending voting altogether?
Probably never.
It will be like in Russia: your vote doesn’t matter, but elections still take place as a way for the “Great Leader” to assert his power and dominance over the masses. Elections then become a lie that everyone knows but no one can publicly say, a form of exhibitionism in honor of the King’s power to control the narrative, to distort reality.
Unfortunately, the new American elections will become a gruesome feast mocking democracy where every guest already knows the results.
Season 2 after the season 1 cliffhanger: who actually owns Alaska?
WTAF. Assuming we even still have voting, I’m going to be so pissed if this dementia-addled diaper-filling piece of shit means voting in Colorado has to be in-person.
Fuck this guy.
Executive. Orders. Are. Not. Laws.
They kind of are when the courts are captured.
Electioneering is a power reserved to the states. So, this order is ignorable.
So are dozens of others, that didn’t stop them from being enforced and acted up on.
Unlike the laws that our constitution outlines, which are not enforced or observed.
that didn’t stop them from being enforced and acted up on.
Well, technically congress can invent a financial reward for following its legislative incentives. So, Congress can essentially bribe a state into followibg its ideals, but a state can opt out in favor of self governance so long as it does jot interfere with a power expressed to Congress nor violate the amendments to the us constitution via the 14th and 15th Amendments. So, a state cannot create voting test laws and the such, but they can decide what a district does or doesn’t look like.
It’s an executive order, it doesn’t have that power.
Yet states and other agencies will “make it happen” as if it does.
How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they’d be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.
I don’t give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people’s lives for the next decade plus.
I know for a fact it wouldn’t cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.
Can’t win without cheating or rigging. Sounds right for the Party of Pedos.
