This is what it comes down to: The sitting President of the United States is trying to exert direct control over the U.S. Postal Service to get around the Constitution, which says that states have control of elections. Courts are stopping him from directly suppressing mail-in ballots, so he's trying an end run around them using USPS.
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NYT: Trump Signs Order Seeking Federal Control of Mail Voting as He Promotes False Claims [[link removed]]
Straight from the New York Times , John:
" President Trump on [March 31] stepped up efforts to promote his false claims of widespread voting fraud, signing an executive order of questionable constitutionality seeking to create a national list of citizens that would determine voting eligibility and restrict mail ballots. "
Let's be clear: The president has no explicit Constitutional authority over elections, and much of this latest attack on our fundamental right to vote appears difficult to enforce and legally dubious.
This order directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a “ state citizenship list ” based on data from various federal databases. It also directs federal officials to send that made-up list to state election officials, and orders the attorney general to prioritize prosecution of election officials who provide ballots to voters not on the made-up list. It also directs the U.S. Postal Service not to transmit mail-in ballots from any individual not included on Trump's “ state citizenship list ," even though elections are mandated by the constitutional the be run by the states.
This order is yet another sign that the MAGA crew will do anything they can to codify their power permanently and silence the will of the people by suppressing and eliminating the votes we cast.
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We all know that mail-in voting laws are about ballot accessibility, making it easier for voters to participate in our elections . States have spent millions of taxpayer dollars investigating voter fraud since 2020's "big lie" and found virtually nothing. It's been used widely in some states for decades and in most of the country since the pandemic.
But that doesn't stop Trump because he's absolutely terrified of what might happen in the next election.
Arizona’s Secretary of State (the official who runs elections), Adrian Fontes, reacted like this: “ The Constitution doesn’t allow the executive to take over elections administration, that’s a job for the state legislatures or Congress, and so I don’t think this is going to pass any sort of judicial muster. So this is a big, giant waste of time, and it’s an attention grab from the Trump administration. ”
He added: “ The greatest threat to American elections is Donald Trump lying about them. ” That''s because Donald Trump’s continued claims about large-scale “cheating” in elections are outright lies.
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