Donald Trump announces plan to change elections

Thanks for putting that plain text from the top of the post into a jpeg down in the comments.

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.

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.

they can also add rules to restrict the number of polling places, resulting in disproportionately long lines in cities where democrats live

Aren't rural people more republican leaning?

I'm expecting a third term now with 110% of the vote. NK style.

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.

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.

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

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.

Yeah that's only when it's Democrats trying to change things.

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.

lmao, democracy tm

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.

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.

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 2020 was greatly expanded mail in voting. No surprise he wants to ban it.

Even one of his own tried to kill him

Yeah but then we get Incel-In-Chief JD Vance as president which is honestly MUCH scarier.

Oregon has entirely mail-in voting, since the 1990s. Good luck getting us to give it up.

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

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...

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.

No. Federal government could always 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 the 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.

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?

omm... the Republicans have the supreme court and are in the process of lighting the constitution on fire as we speak?

Shutting down polling stations in democratic areas has been part of the disenfranchisement strategy to-date. I’m sure this policy is one step of a few to try and permanently take power…

while lazy ignorant old people

Ignorant, yes, by definition. But voter turnout among registered Republicans has historically been pretty high - often higher than Democrats. There's a few breakdowns of this but I found this older analysis quite interesting: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022/

And there's evidence that higher turnout benefited Republicans this year: https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voter-turnout-republicans-trump-harris-7ef18c115c8e1e76210820e0146bc3a5

He also said we'd never hear from him again if he lost in 2020.

It's because you'll be standing in line waiting to vote instead.

He's already sucking putin's

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.

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.

Except that some people walk around with a security detail that everyone else paid for.

Paper ballots are good

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.

It's a shame that, despite not understanding government, they're about to have unfettered control of it.

Well the election laws primarily come from the election clause of the constitution. So that couldn't be changed without an amendment requiring a super majority, which neither party will get. What I assume he is trying to do though, is while having state leaders being majority Republican, have the states update their election laws, because that's who controls the elections. (Unless the supreme Court blocks it, as we saw with Colorado). Also held by the Republicans.

I assume his attempts are to lock all the states currently red, red. Is it possible, doubtful. As states also may require super majoritys to update their election processes, but that may vary drastically by state. Shit one state was discussing getting rid of popular vote all together and just allowing their representatives to vote leading up to the election.

The country we knew as the U.S. is broken. Only threads to hold it together now

Conservatives didn't start it now, it's a long game they're playing for decades, it just became obvious now when it's in final stage.
Their goal always was to break checks and balances for them but only for them, and they are able to because they broke enough already. Id Dems will try to do a fraction of what Cons are doing, they will be politically and judicially murdered, partially because of that, and partially because breaking shit is easy and fixing it requires abiding by the letter of law, and that's hard when the law was deliberately destroyed

Because they don't want to. The corporate Democrats work for their sponsors, not the people. The few genuine progressives are kept around mainly for show.

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".

Because Democrats love losing. They use that as an excuse to blast their constituents with texts on how to donate. They did that when Roe was overturned and a few days after Kamala lost. As another commenter pointed out, they're beholden to their sponsors and their sponsors want a return on investment.

Not those states rights.

Testing the waters.

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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.

Testing, testing...