Donald Trump announces plan to change elections

This is why he wants to do that.

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.

Goodbye democracy. We barely knew thee ...

But.. it's the states that run elections, not the federal government. This doesn't make any sense.

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.

"mandating paper ballots... while eliminating mail-in voting."

Does he not know mail in ballots are paper ballots? 🤔

"We're gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time," he said. "And we are gonna look at elections. We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship."

This should come with a national day off for voting, and mandatory voting requirement.

Party that loves the troops want to eliminate way the troops vote.

fuck that, mail in voting has done so much good and it's a prime step in stopping all this. if we had national mail in voting things would get better fast so no wonder they don't want it.

what would this mean for states that already do this

This motherfucker better be in a Popemobile 24/7. I got a bad feeling about this guy's future existence.

Something something constitution

Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/

What was that about States rights?

Oh, yeah, they only matter when they do what you want.

Still following putin I see. Wait until he tries to change Presidential term limits.

Wouldn’t he basically need a constitutional amendment to do this. Which would be almost impossible these days.

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.

But... I thought he said we wouldn't have to vote ever again?

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.

Anyone else get those Republican mailers that said to be sure to get your mail-in ballot early? (I mean, like, a bunch of them.)

Suck my dick.

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.

I am forced to file taxes every year and being a US citizen fucks my ability to invest in the retirement plans here because they all end up being PFICs which the IRS heavily penalizes. Fuck you, you're not taking my rights away. Forcing me to travel to not only the US, but to the state where I'm registered is not OK as that is thousands of dollars and days to accomplish.

Eliminate the Electoral College. None of this other crap.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like a bad idea to do something that disenfranchises people at the moment.

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?

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.

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.

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.

So not cancelling voting just yet.