Trump to Issue Executive Order on Voter ID Before Election

OK, I would like to proffer.

I am not against Voter ID to vote. Here in Connecticut I have have to show identification for decades in order to cast my vote(s).

My concern on this current issue is --- what are the hurdles that Pres trump is trying to put into place to prevent legal voters from being able to obtain the ID needed to be able to vote?

imo, that is the crux of this issue.

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," [fmr Pres] Trump said...

---- you -------. I'm ignoring a ------- fat bald pedo traitor ---------, and I will double tap any ------- masked goon that comes within 100 feet of me when I vote

Trump pushes voter ID 'whether approved by Congress or not!'
www.politico.com

... President Donald Trump insisted Friday that voter ID requirements will be in place for this year's midterm elections regardless of congressional approval, escalating his push for sweeping changes to how Americans vote.

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" the president wrote on Truth Social. He also said he "searched the depths" of legal arguments on the issue and would be "presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," though he did not specify what legal rationale he would rely on.

"If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted," Trump wrote in a separate lengthy post shortly after, adding that he would present his justification in the form of an executive order. ...

@#9 ... "There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" the president wrote on Truth Social. ...

So, Pres Trump admits and asserts that his dicta auto-magically override Congress?

@#4 ... It's hard to see how an Executive Order by the President has any authority over how the several States conduct their elections. The Constitution is pretty clear on this. ..

... and the Constitution seems to have mattered to Pres Trump ... how?

He's a ------- demented clown.

laying out the "legal reasons" for national voter-identification requirements.

There isn't a Republican alive who can answer this question:

If Voter ID is so important and so popular, why don't Republicans in Congress pass a law to give every American Citizen a valid Voter ID?

@#6 ... So we should expect to see righties flooding this thread with all sorts of protests against this blatantly unconstitutional oath, right? ...

My guess would be that MAGA is more concerned about getting the votes, than the means how they may get those votes.

If Trump succeeds, elections in America are over.

The country is done.

The probability to this coming to fruition is somewhere between zero and none. Calm down. Breathe.

The probability to this coming to fruition is somewhere between zero and none. Calm down. Breathe.
#16 | Posted by et_al

Doesn't need to ultimately hold up in court. Just create enough confusion to suppress the vote in the coming midterms. With the willing participation of GOP state authorities.

Trump, in posts late Friday to Truth Social, said he wants voter-ID laws implemented for the 2026 midterm elections, even though legislation mandating them appears poised to stall in Congress.

Sounds completely illegal and unethical to try and change the rules just before a critical election.

So, of course, that's what he "wants".

#17

I'm not seeing the confusion and suppression. I foresee the Buffoon signing something, the courts stopping it and normal voting processes proceed.

What do you see that foresee that leads to confusion and suppression?

Here's and educated guess about the source of the Buffoon's "irrefutable" argument in favor of his current piece of stupid. electionlawblog.org

Unseen shadows. On a microfiche copy.

Bottom line:

If this is what President Trump's lawyers are going to hang their hats on, they are going to be the laughing stock among lawyers.

So, nothing's changed.

My guess? It's gonna TACO. Again.

I'm not seeing the confusion and suppression. I foresee the Buffoon signing something, the courts stopping it and normal voting processes proceed. What do you see that foresee that leads to confusion and suppression?
#19 | Posted by et_al

Certain less-aware members of the voting public, a few percent is all that is required to swing many elections, hearing that they now need proof of citizenship to vote and deciding not to bother. And Republican powers-that-be deciding to still go forward with Trump's rules on election day, or lead the public to believe that they will, thereby discouraging them from voting.

And that's not even getting into the registration issue that will be suppressing the vote in the weeks ahead: "Registration has been the number one reason why citizens in the US do not vote, which is why most democracies automatically enroll their citizens."
Voter Suppression en.wikipedia.org

Not everyone has multiple days to spend on making sure they can vote.

... few percent is all that is required to swing many elections, ...

I don't think data upholds that. That aside, the concerns you voice are general. They exist without this stupid.

>... few percent is all that is required to swing many elections, ...
I don't think data upholds that.

Whut? Electoral collegely speaking, Hillary lost by 33,000 votes in 2016. Biden won by 44,000 votes in 2020.

Looking at just 2024 House results:
Adam Gray (D) 0.09 percentage points (187 votes)
Elissa Slotkin (D) 0.34 percentage points

In the 2024 election, the 11 most competitive House races were decided by less than two percentage points. Republicans won six of these tight decisions and Democrats five.
www.ellisinsight.com

That aside, the concerns you voice are general. They exist without this stupid.
#23 | Posted by et_al

Trump is the one laying the groundwork. If you don't see that, well...

Slotkin was US Senate, not House.

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#26

"Were nearly half a million registered California voters disqualified from jury duty in one year because they were not citizens?

No."

azcir.org

"449,000 Californians turned down jury duty because they were not citizens ... but they were registered voters."

November 11, 2019
No evidence 449,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in California"

www.politifact.com

lmao... originally from a Sarah Palin shared post more than 6 years ago... and Trumpers are still sharing it.