Donald Trump announces plan to change elections
Donald Trump announces plan to change elections
Trump made the remarks while accepting the "Patriot of the Year" award at a Long Island event on Thursday.
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.
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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.
owait.
I've forgotten what ratio of the house and Senate need to approve amendments. I'm sure they haven't tho, and will pack them both with the number they need.
2/3 then 3/4 of states must ratify
Yeah that's only when it's Democrats trying to change things.
But… it’s the states that run elections, not the federal government. This doesn’t make any sense.
Not sure why you'd think that doesn't make sense. State Republicans take their matching orders from Donald Trump. This is Trump telling state level Republicans that they have one job right now, to figure out how to carry out this plan to make sure there are never legitimate elections in this country again.
Um, states run elections, federal laws can regulate them. That has always been the case.
Southern states used to require the federal governments permission to change their states election laws. That was actually good that federal governments can somewhat regulate state elections, so southern states cant make racist election laws. Then supreme court stuck down that part of the Voting Right Act. southern states then immediately passed Voter ID laws to restrict minority voting.
Now the funny thing is, because now that the federal government is under a republican trifecta, they are now gonna do a uno reverse and regulate blue states like we used to regulate southern states.