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.
Thanks for putting that plain text from the top of the post into a jpeg down in the comments.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I couldn’t copy the plain text on jerboa, so I had to screen shot.
On Jerboa: Tap the three vertical dots menu in the original post, Copy > Copy post text.
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Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?
Often times yes, but they are in gerrymandered districts with adequate polling locations, plus they love to go out and vote for “their guy”
Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?
In some places only slightly. Like 55/45. So it would still affect Democrats.
Edit: I mention this because a lot of folks tend to assume rural areas are almost exclusively Republican and that’s very far from the truth even in super red states.
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.
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
Shaming people for having deep moral quandries about voting for a candidate who is actively and directly facilitating genocide is pathetic and pointless and makes you look like a parody of yourself.
they can also add rules to restrict the number of polling places, resulting in disproportionately long lines in cities where democrats live
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
A big part of why he lost in 2016 was greatly expanded mail in voting. No surprise he wants to ban it.
Did you typo? You mean 2020 right?
I think we all know what the party of small government and states rights thinks of states doing things they don’t agree with.
Suck my dick.
He’s already sucking putin’s
I am forced to file taxes every year and being a US citizen fucks my ability to invest in the retirement plans here because they all end up being PFICs which the IRS heavily penalizes. Fuck you, you’re not taking my rights away. Forcing me to travel to not only the US, but to the state where I’m registered is not OK as that is thousands of dollars and days to accomplish.
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.
Well, to be fair, elections have always been biased with shit like this.
We never really had a 10/10 fair election, there has always been biases in favor of status quo / regressivism. It always took more than 51% of votes for the less regressive party to win. We’re just regressing back to stupid election shenanigans like those 2000 florida ballots designed to confuse everyone. Shenanigans that had always existed, but we evolved out of, but now we are going through a period of regression, as the country has done many many times before.
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.
I’m expecting a third term now with 110% of the vote. NK style.
Nah, we are about to have elections like the US used to in the 1900s, filled with political shenanigans. Its bad, but like… that has been how elections have always been run.
Not exactly russia or north korea, but like half way there.
Edit: Basically, instead of 51% of the vote, you need 55% or maybe even more, because some of the votes will get thrown out for made up reasons. Slightly marked off center of the bubble, invalid. Didn’t fill the bubble completely, invalid. And they only scrutinize votes for the opposition, and approve the votes for their candidates even if there are the same errors in the marking of the ballot.
Like that scene at the end of The Dictator, when he finally holds election.
There are two vote boxes and all the citizens are queuing in front of the box that will vote for his opposition. A tank drives up next to that queue, and everyone leaves the opposition queue, rushing over to join the queue to vote for the dictator.
But… it’s the states that run elections, not the federal government. This doesn’t make any sense.
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.
scotus would have to literally rewrite the constitution for the feds to have that much control over states’ elections.
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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
Don’t worry, I’m sure all the small government conservatives will stop this!
Yeah that’s only when it’s Democrats trying to change things.
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.
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 chose 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?
Oregon has entirely mail-in voting, since the 1990s. Good luck getting us to give it up.
I mean, with this partisan supreme court, we can expect the electoral votes for non-complying states to get thrown out via court order. Who knows 🤷♂️
And that’s going to go really well.
but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations
they are gonna chose to highlight this part then ignore the rest
We told you stupid motherfuckers that stayed home, this would be the last legitimate election if Trump won. We’re fucked.
‘Bbbut gaza…’ great job guys.
Yeah right. ConOLD has no intention of allowing more elections.
Testing, testing…
So not cancelling voting just yet.
Testing the waters.
If they could, one of the 40+ previous presidents would’ve already done so. They can rig it to make thing more biased, but cant completely cancel elections. That is, unless they do a civil war to purge every remnant of the opposition.
I mean yes, good point, we’ve had rough times before. But this also sounds like a setup for a “hold my beer” meme.
Party that loves the troops want to eliminate way the troops vote.
Wouldn’t he basically need a constitutional amendment to do this. Which would be almost impossible these days.
No. Federal government could ways regulate elections. We used to require southern states to get federal governments permission before they can change their state election laws, so that they cant make racist election laws, but then thw supreme court struck down that part of the Voting Right Act, then southern states immediately enacted Voter ID Laws.
Now that republicans have a trifecta in federal government, they are doing an uno reverse to regulate blue states like we used to regulate southern states.
The VRA was an extension of the fourteenth amendment. And the federal government never said the racist states had to do X. They said the states had to submit changes to the federal government to make sure they weren’t racist and thus unconstitutional.
Trump’s stuff doesn’t have any of that grounding.
Well if all the red and swing states do it, they will still win.
Yup. He can try for a reverse VRA but it’s going to be a pretty big fight if he does.
Hard to say. voting is up to states for methodology but like we did have restrictions on state due to discrimation till recently that would not allow them to change their rules or purge voters like they do again nowadays.
till
how hard can it be when you hold the Senate, Congress, and the supreme court?
Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like a bad idea to do something that disenfranchises people at the moment.
Except that some people walk around with a security detail that everyone else paid for.
Yeah it’s pretty funny cause these ghouls know only how to do one thing.
I feel like the next four years will have the energy of:
“The austerity will continue until moral and ceo shootings improve”.
Good luck with that.
No, no, by all means push more people to their breaking point. They’ve long done the “fuck around” part and I would love to be around to witness the “and find out” part.
“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.
Goodbye democracy. We barely knew thee …
Yeah, clearly opening the door to discuss further changes to the election process. It’s dying, and he doesn’t want more people voting, he wants less, if at all
Real “stop testing” energy here.
If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any
“If we just stop voting, we’d have very few votes against me”
