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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823
Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.
He isn’t technically able to do most of the stuff he does do. He just does it, and then time passes and then it gets declared retroactively illegal… but it still happened. He’ll probably get punished at some point… right?
The states run elections, lease the voting places and employ all the staff.
Unless the federal govt replaces all of them, just waving a chicken leg around and declaring stuff won’t do anything.
Or you know he could put ice officers outside strategic polls and block anyone he doesnt like from entering.
We both outnumber and out-gun ICE by an absolutely astounding margin. ICE posts at our polling places, ICE gets crushed.
And theyre still running rampant and killing us citizens. Hows that armed resistence working out for you.
There hasn’t been much of one yet, because many people don’t feel personally threatened. They will feel threatened if ICE is blocking access to their polling place though.