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Rhiannon12866

(255,747 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:20 PM Tuesday

WATCH: Trump Signs Executive Order Cracking Down On Mail-In Voting - Forbes Breaking News



In the Oval Office, Trump signed an Executive Order cracking down on mail-in voting. - 03/31/2026.
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Rhiannon12866

(255,747 posts)
3. When I worked on my last Democratic congressman's campaigns, there was a lot of senior housing on my "turf"
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:06 PM
Tuesday

And so many seniors who I called on told me that they'd already sent in their ballots. I learned then that this is the way most senior citizens vote - one was a 97-year-old woman, but she voted. And we recently learned that's the way that the senior felon-in-chief votes as well.

Deuxcents

(26,966 posts)
4. Every one I know votes by mail, young and old. Younger people work and older people can't stand in line for hours
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:29 PM
Tuesday

It’s something most people want and take advantage of but TSF doesn’t want us to have anything we like even tho he votes by mail and technically lives in a resort, not a residence

Rhiannon12866

(255,747 posts)
5. I voted by mail during the pandemic, the governor sent mail in ballots to those of us in New York
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:37 PM
Tuesday

And the last time I took advantage of early voting, I may do it again since it's offered over several days and was very convenient. Or is the felon-in-chief going to block that convenience, too? Hypocrite.

Deuxcents

(26,966 posts)
6. How each state conducts their voting process is guaranteed by the constitution and he has no say about it
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:04 AM
Wednesday

Too hard for him to grasp so he keeps meddling and we gotta keep pushing back. He and his Project 2025 team wants to rearrange our system top to bottom so there’s no slacking on our part. Just vote!

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,958 posts)
7. Trump may have accidentally torpedoed his own bid to seize voter rolls: analyst
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:03 PM
10 hrs ago

I am still pissed that Texas gave trump all of Texas' voter information. The trump DOJ has sued 20+ states trying to get these records and so far has not won any of these lawsuits. In these lawsuits, the DOJ never really states why they really need these records. trump's voting by mail executive order is clearly the reason for these lawsuits.

Trump acknowledged in his executive order that he "directs DHS to create a nationwide voter registration database.”

Trump may have accidentally  torpedoed his own bid to seize voter rolls: analyst

www.rawstory.com/trump-voting...

Evie (@evie55.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T20:06:48.463Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voting-2676662305/

President Donald Trump's executive order demanding states put new procedures in place for mail-in voting and turn over information about who is voting by mail is almost certain to be struck down in court, Jim Saksa wrote for Democracy Docket on Friday — but that's not the only way it could derail Trump's ambitions.

That's because this order could also undermine one of the main arguments Trump's Justice Department has used in court to defend the lawsuits filed against dozens of states to seize their voting rolls.

"In those lawsuits, the DOJ has claimed it needs millions of voters’ private sensitive data in order to ensure the states are complying with federal laws that require states to take steps to ensure accurate rolls," said the report. "But outside of court, DOJ officials like Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon have undermined that claim by boasting that the state voter records they’ve already obtained have been used to verify citizenship status using the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program."

After judges began ruling against the lawsuits on these grounds, DOJ officials backpedaled somewhat and said there was no plan to help the Department of Homeland Security build a national database of voters.

Trump, however, may have blown that excuse by outright acknowledging in his executive order that he "directs DHS to create a nationwide voter registration database," noted the report.

"Along with Dhillon’s statements and Trump’s orders, the DOJ’s courtroom attestations have been impeached repeatedly," wrote Saksa. For example, "last week, CBS reported that DOJ and DHS were working to formalize a data-sharing agreement for the voter rolls. And on the same day Tucker was assuring a federal judge that the DOJ wouldn’t share state records with DHS, Eric Neff, acting chief of the DOJ’s Voting Rights Section, admitted to another judge in Rhode Island that they, in fact, would."

trump's DOJ/DHS really want a nationwide voter database with a ton of confidential information. This database would be used to enforce trump's voter id executive order. It will be fun seeing trump's executive order being cited in these lawsuits.
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