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.

@bluetea @mattblaze @ahltorp That's a good question. Certainly before Biden, trunp placed a loyalist in power over the post office, and he then destroyed it - literally bricking the sorting machines, for example - and Biden didn't replace him, and instead DeJoy waited until trunp was back in power to resign suddenly (fell or pushed?) in March.
My theory is that trunp knows Elno isn't to be trusted now since they fell out, so he can't rely on the e-voting machines any more, so he's "banning" them. Better to get postal votes banned too, because he's railed against those for forever as too ~~hard~~easy to corrupt. Better to go with the easier voter suppression of closing down every way for black people to get an ID, and make them wait 12 hours to present it to vote, which they could sidestep with a postal ballot.

Sorry, too much?