Lauren Weinstein

BREAKING: FASCIST Trump plotting emergency measure to ban mail-in ballots, voting machine, and require all voters to register with proof of citizenship before THIS year's election

https://wapo.st/3N5cpEn (You need a free login with WashPost to access this, apparently)

Feb 27 at 1:32amWeb
Show threadMark T. TomczakFeb 27
@lauren He can try.
Show threadTodd KnarrFeb 27
@lauren I wish him luck, because this'll all have to be at the state level and the Supreme Court can't knock down state court TROs and preliminary injunctions. State higher courts have been less accepting of Trump's stuff even in deep-red states.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 27
@tknarr Did you read the article discussing the specific emergency powers he plans to invoke to make this happen?
Show threadTodd KnarrFeb 27
@lauren And those'll be challenged in state court as well as Federal, since it'll be state agencies implementing them. He'll only have any luck where he has the solid backing of the state government to ignore the state courts, and that isn't as widespread as he thinks. Enforcing his mandates is the question, and he just doesn't have the manpower to do that without the state agencies' cooperation.
Show threadC.Feb 27

@lauren

As @mattblaze has discussed a few times, there's a lot of daylight between what Trump says he's going to do about elections, and what he actually has the practical ability to achieve, even without legal arguments.

However, one of his big ones - eliminate mail-in voting, because the "low-information voters" that are the raw #feedstock of #MAGA don't vote by mail - worries me, because of something he might be able to do.

If Trump ordered a #compliant #USPS - it's officially independent, but it's part of the executive branch and run by a Trump #toady - to simply not deliver voting packages or returned ballots - he could effectively end vote-by-mail without even talking to the states, much less getting them to do it legally. And if he did it late enough, the courts might have trouble acting quickly enough to preserve those potential votes.

I really hope some of the orgs trying to recover the #US #constitutional order are thinking about this.

#LowInformationVoter #LowInfoVoter #LowInformation #LowInfo #elections #VoteByMail #vote #mail #USPol

Show threadWooShellFeb 27
@lauren .. yeah, but when I predict that there won't be any real elections anymore if the Reps can prevent them, suddenly *I'm* the crazy guy..