Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The Constitution is very clear that the “times, places, and manner“ of elections for federal office are determined by individual states (though can be altered by Congress).
The president simply has no role in US elections (except to sign into law or veto whatever election-related bills that congress might pass).
Finally, the federal government has no role in actually running US elections. States do that (usually via counties). So there is no one subject to this order in a position to follow it.
There are plenty of things to worry about with Trump. The legitimate power of the presidency is already vast, and he constantly pushes at its edges to abuse the office further still. But this “order” is just empty blather on his part, not something that he has any ability to actually implement or require.
@mattblaze I see a lot of people that say “this person can do this”, and “this person can’t do that”, referring to legality. You are far from the first, society and Mastodon are full of them.
As I wrote, I understand the reason for making this type of naive analysis, but it also perpetuates myths of how power works in society, and people are probably better off studying Foucault or Mbembe than the law at this stage. Sorry if this offends you.
@ahltorp Again, I apologize if you found my analysis insufficiently broad. However, I think you have also mischaracterized it.
Again, my best advice is to find posters to follow who better serve your needs.
I am sorry that I am unable to be of further assistance.
@mattblaze @ahltorp Why are they so opposed to mail-in ballots?
Here in Australia, they send me a mailing ballot application 'just in case' and I barely need a reason to use it. They go out of their way to make it easy to vote. I can vote at a booth for a week ahead of time, and there's absentee booths in every town if I'm travelling and have forgotten to mail ballot.
They are deliberately attempting to make it more difficult to vote.
More specifically, the Republicans want to make it more difficult for people who don't have full time 9-5 Monday - Friday jobs with leave entitlements. So, those people are more likely to be young, non-white, and/or poor, elderly, chronically ill/disabled. So the people who can't queue for a whole day on a Tuesday to vote.
They are attempting to hold back the inevitable demographic changes that mean their voting base are becoming a minority. Rather than change their policies to appeal to the shifting population demographics (see our Liberal/National Coalition parties), they're attempting to rig elections to win Govt.
Ironically, the largest demographic who use mail-in ballots, vote Republican ie elderly etc.
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