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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So not cancelling voting just yet.
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.
omm… the Republicans have the supreme court and are in the process of lighting the constitution on fire as we speak?
The constitution doesn’t protect the people from the government. The constitution protects a government from the people.
When the government lights the constitution on fire, “We The People” are no longer restrained by its restrictions. We are free to establish a new constitution, with blackjack and hookers, and burn down the government established by the old, flaming constitution.
We told you stupid motherfuckers that stayed home, this would be the last legitimate election if Trump won. We’re fucked.
In elections where there needs to be a single winner so proportional representation does not work, how about this (already works in several EU countries):
Round 1: Anyone can participate if they have enough signatures. If anyone gets the majority vote, they automatically win and there is no round 2.
Round 2, 1 or 2 weeks later: Top 2 candidates from Round 1. No votes are carried over. Popular vote wins.
RCV doesn’t need 2 rounds for this. Neither does approval voting.
This is not a problem with voting that needs new ideas to address.
Lmao good luck with that constitutional amendment, Donnie.
This half-baked nonsense is dead at conception because once again Republicans prove they don’t understand government.
It’s a shame that, despite not understanding government, they’re about to have unfettered control of it.
The saving grace is that our federal government relies HEAVILY on state workers and agencies.
A lot of states can simply say no, or “yeah, we’ll get around to it.”
Suck my dick.
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It’s hilarious to me that people in “non political” spaces like sportsball are now doing the donvict jerkoff dance.
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
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.
Shaming people, who pretend to have moral quandaries but then immediately acting to worsen everything they pretend to care about, however, is the only objectively correct behaviour.
Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?
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.
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.
But… it’s the states that run elections, not the federal government. This doesn’t make any sense.
Yeah that’s only when it’s Democrats trying to change things.
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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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
This motherfucker better be in a Popemobile 24/7. I got a bad feeling about this guy’s future existence.
Yeah but then we get Incel-In-Chief JD Vance as president which is honestly MUCH scarier.
Just means they’re next in line.
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 2016 was greatly expanded mail in voting. No surprise he wants to ban it.
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.
I’m expecting a third term now with 110% of the vote. NK style.
Wouldn’t he basically need a constitutional amendment to do this. Which would be almost impossible these days.
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
So tell me why Dems are playing the same game like one hand tied behind their back? Why don’t they do the same shit when they’re in power?
It’s partly because Democrats often tend towards being honest and good people that actually care about good governance.
The qons don’t and they can just hold things hostage - they basically grab all kinds of things (like balancing budgets) and hold a gun to its head, knowing their dumbass supporters are too stupid to realize that government does do good things - too many of the idiots in the base buy into a whole lot of Libertarian-style anarchy when it comes to “limited government”.
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.
