Trump: „Für die Zwischenwahlen wird es einen Wählerausweis geben, egal ob vom Kongress genehmigt oder nicht!“

He already tried that last year.

Trump is really scared of the midterms.

He really just loves shitting on the constitution.

Desperate and panicking.

Expect more ramping up.

instituting a poll tax by executive order?

how delightfully constitutional

I have never voted without ID. I’ve never understood this claim of his

Edit: to be fair I’ve only lived in two states. But thanks for making me aware it happens. Maybe we should focus on widespread regulations that’s equal across all states.

ok fatboy

Sounds like what a dictator would try to say.

That’s not how our elections work

Even if they caved on this it’s too late. Mail in states couldn’t force us all to re-register when the election is months away. It also wouldn’t stop him from claiming it was rigged when they lose. Can’t wait to see him impeached again.

Sure won’t.

Quiet piggy

The Republican party’s obsession with enacting voter ID law is a DECEPTION.

What’s really dishonest and blatantly corrupt about this whole campaign is that Republicans misrepresent voter ID as a concept and more important than that is how Voter ID is only one of many restrictive policies that Republicans are desperately trying to implement.

Give them the chance to pass legislation like the „SAVE Act,“ and they will seize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to suppress the vote.

When it comes to „protecting the integrity of our elections,“ voter ID is at the bottom of the list.

Republicans will tell you that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.

Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.

Additionally, ID requirements exist in other countries because obtaining IDs in these countries is easier and voting is more accessible. Governments also automatically issue IDs to citizens in countries where ID is required to vote.

Republicans often argue against the use of basic forms of ID and automatic ID issuance. Ask yourself why Republicans clamor on and on for voter ID requirements, yet push back against policies that would help make voter ID a reality?

In other countries, election/voting laws and polling procedures often make voting simpler and more convenient, but in the US, republican-backed voting laws, regulations and legal challenges tend to make it more difficult to vote—especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities

That said, and despite all of the conspiracy theories and lies about „election fraud“ following Trump’s humiliating loss in 2020, no substantial evidence and data have been provided to support voter ID requirements. Which begs the question, why would you advocate for implementing a policy that solves an imaginary problem, or fails to sufficiently solve that problem?

And if all of that wasn’t enough, other systemic issues exist that act as impediments to free and fair elections.

Analyses show that when states have fair maps, drawn by independent commissions, representation is more evenly split—especially in Republican controlled states where Democrats gain seats when they otherwise wouldn’t due to partisan redistricting efforts. When those same states are gerrymandered to hell, Republicans win more seats.

Because Republicans are overrepresented in state legislatures, they have broader control of gerrymandering.

The GOP is capitalizing on this opportunity to consolidate power for the foreseeable future. Which means that their redistricting wars and voter suppression efforts will be ongoing, and the more this continues, the more it will chip away at the democratic process.

Gerrymandering practices must be eliminated, and redistricting must be left up to independent commissions in every state.

We must also address foreign election interference and the Republican party’s failure to confront this pressing issue because they have benefitted politically from foreign election meddling for the last several elections.

That said, if MAGA is genuinely intent on „protecting the integrity of our elections,“ they should turn their attention to the myriad systemic issues that Trump and the Republican party seem hell bent on taking advantage of instead of obsessing over unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from years ago.

But they won’t… Instead they are fixated on this fictional issue because that’s precisely what those deciding our elections want from them.

Nevertheless, US elections already have multiple layers of protection in place to prevent widespread election tampering.

Several safeguards, legal deterrents, eligibility requirements, audits and paper trails already exist and act as very effective measures against voter and election fraud.

Proof of citizenship requirements also exist and ID verification is already required in several states.

Up till now, these measures have acted as effective deterrents to fraud, but ever since Trump began denying elections without proof and lying to his voters so he could conspire to overturn the results of a free and fair election, those same voters have been pushing for needless policies that seek to address a fictional problem.

Republicans intend to suppress the vote through multiple measures designed to make the voting process more challenging for those that vote against them.

GOP-backed voting laws almost always and intentionally make it more difficult to vote—particularly for voters in densely populated areas.

Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‚big lie“ of a stolen election.

To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing the military while deputizing trigger-happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he now openly plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public, and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.

Republicans exploit the misinformed, take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while providing their party with more power, control and supervision over our election system.

They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.

Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.

This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.

On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.

Republicans have the gall to say they’re „protecting the integrity of elections,“ while making every effort to subvert the vote, crudely redraw maps, purge voter rolls, limit voter participation, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.

Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.

What our representatives SHOULD be singularly focused on is finding a way to institute a complete overhaul of how elections are funded, alongside significant campaign finance reforms and an end to Citizens United. I guess that’s too much to ask.

I think he knows it will get blocked and then just use that an excuse to claim fraud and gum up the works for months after the election

He’s insane. 25th AMENDMENT NOW

Translation: he found out that the Senate doesn’t have the votes to pass that bill so he’s saying this as an end around to try and strong-arm and save face.

Remember, it’s going to be the same people praising this that called Joe Biden all kinds of things for making them wear a mask and carry their vaccination cards.

This is literally unconstitutional and yet another tax on the poor people.

Im stealing this election whether congress lets me or not!

As opposed to now when any old person can just walk up whenever they want and vote. It’s the most massive, complicated, cross-party, far-reaching criminal conspiracy enterprise in history.
An overwhelming amount of voter fraud to sway national elections.

Or.

Trump is an insane, dementia riddled old man.

Occam’s razor is rarely wrong.

Quiet Piggy

Suck my dick bud

Cue the lady who says „That’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works!“

Shoulda checked for ID at those parties, you creepy old fuck