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.
This is why he wants to do that.
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
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.
This is it folks. If he is able to transform our election system with his own two hands, we’ve had our last fair election, I guarantee it. Fraud will be baked in, circumventing any design elements that are ostensibly there to guard against it.
This is the scariest thing I’ve read since the election.
They weren’t quiet about this being the last fair election we would have. I’m also not convinced it was actually a fair election.
But whatever…too late to bitch about the fascists now.
The writing has not even been on the wall here, it’s been part of the plan all along, he’s been saying it all along and it’s obvious after he tried to violently steal it last time.
We’re in a situation where our only hope I they are too incompetent to pull off the democracy destroying evil they are promising.
But… it’s the states that run elections, not the federal government. This doesn’t make any sense.
Don’t worry, I’m sure all the small government conservatives will stop this!
scotus would have to literally rewrite the constitution for the feds to have that much control over states’ elections.
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Yeah that’s only when it’s Democrats trying to change things.
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
“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
“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.
and voting location mandates per capita.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Too bad for him the constitution clearly states “the states shall decide” - which is why we have the hodgepodge patchwork bullshit we have now. So he may want to change it, but unless he actually does light the Constitution on fire, this is unlikely to go anywhere.
Something something constitution
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/
What was that about States rights?
Oh, yeah, they only matter when they do what you want.
Oregon has entirely mail-in voting, since the 1990s. Good luck getting us to give it up.
Yeah, but primaries aren’t controlled by the states.
Which is why waaay back in 2024, the DNC and Biden were able to take all of NH primary delegates away…
That’s not voting, though. That’s what the party decides.
But, yeah, the DNC highjacked the ability of people to choose the nominee for their party. Again.
That’s not voting, though. That’s what the party decides.
And (totally as a hypothetical) if pro corporate interests decided to interfere with primaries by donati g insane amount of money to pro-corporate candidates to ensure corps always win regardless of what letter is by the President’s name…
Would you describe that as the illusion of choice when after decades those peo corporate interests controlled the parties and then (totally legally) directly influence the primary and ensure the corpo candidates always “wins”?
And I’m not trying to be a dick here, but unless we fix primaries, we’ll never really “win” in the general, even when the Democratic candidate wins.
Your point is completely legit.
Everything we believe about choice is an illusion. Propaganda. The dream is fiction.
The public believe only 2 options exist. Because, no viable other options exist. At the moment. Any third party is either a spoiler by design, or so limited in scope as to be useless to most.
Maybe now is the time to start another. A serious effort to form a citizen controlled, truly democratic, accountable, party. With its own primaries and rules. For the people.
Not next election cycle.
The DNC and RNC are irredeemably rotten because of the very concerns you’ve mentioned.
Can’t repair rotted wood. You can cut out the decay and try to patch it up but you’re left with an unstable structure.
You need to replace it.
The difficulty is when the money realizes it could interfere and run propaganda to de-legitimize.
Honest people who can own their faults, who are not afraid of their skeletons, who cannot be blackmailed, are needed.
An impossible task to be sure.
But, a lot of things have been impossible.
If qanon and the tea party can take over a party in a few years…
Does anything other than tradition prevent a candidate from running in the primaries of both the R and D conventions? Could the same person end up as the candidate for both parties?
2028 might provide an answer the way things are going…
I don’t know the answer but I would assume party rules would prevent that somehow.
But, if someone ran for and won the R nomination and the D didn’t do a primary to officially nominate anyone, and that person crossed the aisle… I have no idea what would happen. Maybe it is possible.
cuts out 80% of the elderly vote in one swift motion
cuts out unprepared idiots who don’t know any better before they leave their house
There goes his voters.
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.
But… I thought he said we wouldn’t have to vote ever again?
It’s because you’ll be standing in line waiting to vote instead.
He also said we’d never hear from him again if he lost in 2020.
Suck my dick.
