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.
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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.
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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.
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Headlines should say "In desperate bid to keep unpopular republicans in the house, Trump attempts to unlawfully ban mail in voting"
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…
Forging paper ballots is actually much harder than forging electronic ballots. That's why he fights them so much.
He's so dumb. Denouncing mail-in voting cost him in 2020 and they reversed course in 2024. Now they're against it again?
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.
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
Yes yes but what about Esptein files?
It’s because his bestie Putin told him to
After the two met Friday, the president told Fox News' Sean Hannity that "Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said, 'You can't have an honest election, election with mail-in voting.'
How brain dead can Fox watchers really be? How can you listen to this - literally everything about that blurb is bizarro-world upside-down retarded.
You know where mail in voting is allowed? Russia.
I don’t think you are correct. https://apnews.com/article/russia-presidential-election-2024-what-to-know-04a363dd56d4b3f15d3048ed8585fe55
Your link doesn't mention anything about mail in voting. But I did look further into it, and it seems that they don't allow mail in ballots. My mistake.
How brain dead can Fox watchers really be? How can you listen to this - literally everything about that blurb is bizarro-world upside-down retarded.
Oh, their viewers are extremely brain dead. Even before Taco Camacho ran in 2015, some of their viewers were using Putin in that photo op on a horse as their friggin' avatar on social media. You know, because Putin was a "real man" and Obama wore mom jeans, married a dude, and most criminal of all, liked Dijon mustard. Of course, there is nothing gay about worshiping a shirtless dude on horseback.
I wish I was kidding. I would ask some of these jagoffs about using that as their avatar, and you'd learn all this and a bit more - Faux News was always on at their household, we must support Israel "no matter what", and Putin was something to be admired because he didn't tolerate gays taking over the Russian culture and he respected xtianity and white men.
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I voted by mail in 2020. It was super easy and convenient - which is why republicans hate it.
It directly counters many of their favorite voter suppression tactics.
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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.
How about go fuck yourself you orange sack of shit.
I'm worried that might create a second one. Can he fuck off and die, instead? I've been waiting for the McDonald's to do its job already.
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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….
States rights preserved to run elections how they see fit amirite
I think we should make voting mandatory.
If you want to ban mail in ballots, let's make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. Because you truly, yet incorrectly, believe that mail in ballots are insecure. Not because you're trying to suppress the votes of people who have a harder time making it to the ballot box.
If you want to prove that you're doing it for the right reasons, instead of the absolutely wicked reasons that you appear to be doing it for, then make voting mandatory at the same time. Make sure that each American gets to the ballot box because they are easily available and quick. Make voter registration automatic and track down every citizen to make sure that their voice is heard.
Ballot boxes disenfranchise bed-bound people. Let's not add an infraction for not voting. Mandatory voting requires mail-in ballots
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the last thing GOP wants is EVERYONE voting, it hurts them more if everyone is voting.
I've been using mail-in ballots for the past couple of elections, and I do believe my state would genuinely do their best to guarantee that vote is counted like they have in the past.
But the "states rights" party has been concentrating an unprecedented amount of power in the fed, such that I'd honestly be worried about Trump sending the military to my state capital just to forcefully throw any mail-in ballots out.
So for the next election, I am going back to in-person voting.
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The world's sorest LOSER.
I think we've all accepted that he's "running" for a third term. No one is questioning that part of why he wants to do this. He's going to cheat again and also run for a third term, which is unconstitutional.
The 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1951, limits a president to two terms in office. This rule was established following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four-term presidency. Before this amendment, the two-term tradition was an unwritten rule, set by George Washington when he stepped down after his second term.
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This is garbage. I love mail in voting and refuse to go back.
The GOP will do everything in their power to not count or disqualify your mailed-in vote, and you may only find out long after the results are counted.
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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.
OK so does he want to:
- Distract attention
- Corrupt the next election
- something else suiting his needs?
Yes
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