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.
cuts out 80% of the elderly vote in one swift motion
cuts out unprepared idiots who don’t know any better before they leave their house
There goes his voters.
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.”
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.
Eliminate the Electoral College. None of this other crap.
Paper ballots are good
Who doesn’t have paper ballots? The states that use a touch screen (e.g. Dominion) still has paper ballots. You just make your choices on the screen and print the ballot. You check that everything is accurate and insert the paper ballot in the counting machine.
Most local polling places around me have touch screens you put a small card into, but you never see a paper ballot, I’ve honestly never seen a paper ballot for presidential elections in person other than mail ins
We have the same screens with a card. Here you print out the paper ballot and put it in the counter. Never seen them without a paper ballot.
We just hand it to a poll worker and they do whatever they do with it
Ok, well, just change it to whatever we have here then. It’s not a big deal and not everything is a conspiracy.
Jesus fuck. If this asshole gets rid of mail-in voting in Colorado…our voting system here is FANTASTIC.
The qons ruin every thing. They plan on making everyone miserable and breaking everything.
If he really wants to standardize voting at the national level, I think this might actually backfire on the GOP in the long run. Mail-in voting and early voting is extremely popular across the political spectrum, while lazy ignorant old people, the life blood of the GOP for over fifty years, often don’t carry ID or even know where theirs is.
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
I thought Putin’s Sock Puppet and his neo-Nazi supporters want to increase state rights. Getting rid of the Electoral College should be the first step.
Not those states rights.
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.
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.
Yeah right. ConOLD has no intention of allowing more elections.
Testing, testing…
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Suck my dick.
He’s already sucking putin’s
It’s hilarious to me that people in “non political” spaces like sportsball are now doing the donvict jerkoff dance.
