Trump to Issue Executive Order on Voter ID Before Election

Pres Trump has seen the polls.

Now he is reacting to those polls.

Instead of acting for the People he should be serving, he seems to be acting only in his own self-interests.

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...

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?

@#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.