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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 145 points 5 months ago

The actual details are bonkers

According to the Daily Caller, the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. DHS would undertake the effort with the Social Security Administration, the Daily Caller wrote, citing a White House fact sheet.

The U.S. Postal Service would then be required under the order to only send mail-in ballots to voters who appear on the list, according to the Daily Caller. Election authorities in each state typically send out mail ballots to voters, not the Postal Service.

Aside from being blatantly illegal, I bet if you dig into this you will find that the contracts have been given to all of Musk's friends, using all the SSA data they stole

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

Oops a "technical glitch" accidentally removed all Democrats. Can't redo the election though, sorry. We'll do better Next Time™©®

[-] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“Get absolutely fucked”

-the good people of Oregon

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

100% this is all Musk/Russia

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[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago

Though highly contested, a Supreme Court ruling sidesteps the electoral process, disqualifying popular presidential candidates from several states.

-Shattered Union intro

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Isn’t USPS set to collapse very soon? I was surprised when I got a flyer in the mail they were hiring. I live in a state that ONLY does mail in voting too so I’m double confused/worried about this

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The USPS financial situation is complicated. It has a legal monopoly on first-class letter delivery, but that is less and less valuable every year as more simple communications move to the Internet. And it is also the only government agency that not only has to fund its own retirement benefits for its employees, but has to plan to put money away now to help cover retirement needs over the next 75 years.

Take away that retirement funding mandate, which no other agency has, and the USPS is profitable most years.

Making things worse is that the USPS has its own debt limit, separate from the Federal debt limit, which it is right up against right now.

So yes, they lose money, but mainly due to constraints set by Congress, that no other agency has.

Analysis here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-postal-services-fiscal-crisis/

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

And they're fully funded by postage, they don't get any taxpayer money.

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

My local usps has had a broken front window for about 6 months. It’s covered with plywood with no signs of planned repair.

The building was broken into about 2 months ago and a number of PO Boxes were severely damaged.

They want to kill off everything except police enforcement.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 104 points 5 months ago

Bitch, YOU just voted by mail!

[-] riskable@programming.dev 43 points 5 months ago

To be fair, Trump voting at all is super sketchy.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 months ago

He’s a felon, but they allow felons to vote in Florida.

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

They do, after an onerous and capricious process that can end in an "I don't feel like giving you that right back".

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 16 points 5 months ago

What? Felons should be allowed to vote, they are still citizens ..

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

I agree in every case except Donald Trump.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

And his excuse was because work was important. Which is exactly why everyone else wants this.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wish golf was my work.

Not really.

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[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago

And his wife, and his son, and probably his entire family…

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[-] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 91 points 5 months ago

Trump has told Republicans that they will lose the November midterm elections if they don't pass the bill and crack down on mail-in voting.

You know, any normal person might take such confidence that they'll lose an election as a sign that maybe they're doing the wrong things.

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

Nope, they take it as a sign of not doing enough wrong things.

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[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

It’s about power.

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago

How 'bout them states rights? And small government? Lol

[-] BC_viper@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago
[-] zd9@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Congratulations! Welcome to... The List

[-] BC_viper@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Well at least its not the epstein list.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago

If everybody is on the list, nobody is on the list.

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[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago

It's times like these I'm glad I'm not on Reddit anymore.

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[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 30 points 5 months ago

Good thing the constitution leaves it the states to conduct elections, not the federal government.

[-] mech@feddit.org 38 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, the constitution has such a good track record stopping Trump.

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[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 5 months ago

The notion that any aspect of a presidential election can be regulated through executive orders by the current sitting president would be laughed out of the room in any halfway functional democracy.

Might as well do away with the charade and call them royal decrees

[-] kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago

Trump signs executive order declaring Republicans win every open race in the country - Nov 3rd headline this year

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Let's stop enabling him with headlines. He didn't "sign an executive order limiting mail-in voting," because executive orders can't legally do that. He attempted to limit mail-in voting with an executive order. Stop granting the premise. If it works, it won't be because of an EO, it'll be because the USPS broke the law. Trump's power requires others to treat it as absolute. We've got to stop agreeing to do so.

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[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

Remember everyone, since voting won't magically fix everything that means it's worthless! That's why Republicans are trying so hard to suppress voters. For.... Reasons! /S

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

What was that about states rights again?

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unconstitutional

[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

It's comforting in some ways to see Trump make these desperate moves. It really shows the pressure is taking a toll on him and Republicans know it too.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 9 points 5 months ago

desperate moves

These aren't "desperate moves." These are just... the moves. Like, this was the plan. This was always the plan. It's not out of desperation, it's out of design.

[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 9 points 5 months ago

His desperation makes me wonder if he'll do a big family annihilator thing before he's removed from power.

"I won the 2028 election! It was ME! But those Radical Left judges in the SCOTUS said I'm ineligible! Therefore, I'm going to do what I was planning for my next term in only the next few months! Every living thing in Iran will be DEAD before the week is out! Same with the Radical Left cities like Chicago and Los Angeles! No survivors, no prisoners! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago
[-] Cherries@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I too wish that laws still mattered. Thankfully, they still matter a little bit, so there's still a chance for us to turn things around.

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[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

AMP links are bad for privacy and web decentralization; here's the non-AMP version.

I recommend using an extension to automatically redirect AMP URLs to their non-AMP counterparts.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago
[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago

Republicans will lose so thoroughly in November that any attempt at casting doubt on the results of elections will be laughable, no matter the states propensity to vote Republican. We've already seen areas that went to tRump in 2024 by, like 23pts, go to Democrat candidates by a similar margin. That's a -40pt swing in some tRump country elections. That's not poling. Those are special election results.

I think the war he started is only going to intensify the swing by then. At least that's the hope-ium I'm snorting off the toilet seat of this current timeline. In actuality, November will be the last hope for this dying republic and how far gone 1/3 of the population appears to be.

All I know is every reporter that can put questions to tRump need to relentlessly call him out for his mail-in voting, his family's mail-in voting, and reduce any attempt by Faux 'News' to clip positive soundbites, impossible. Drive down into the states rights thought and hit back at Republican voters and candidates with their own arguments. Not to shame or berate them on their past voting choices, but to side with them against any Republican betraying the principles they claim to espouse.

If we successfully vote in a super majority, we must relentlessly canvass communities and hound our reps to demand a change to the whole first-past-the-post method of voting. A lot of our political frustrations can be abated locally, all the way up to national, with this change! If they refuse to support it in any capacity, run progressive candidates to challenge these measured-opposition Democrats and forcefully remove the do-nothing Schumer's of this rotted party/system. No more capitulation to a party. No more hemming and hawing after they're sworn in. Nothing else can be fixed until we replace the system that's used to pick our elected leaders and we have given them ample opportunities to save this country and the party.

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[-] warbosstodd@piefed.social 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah. That’s not how Executive Orders work.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Hasn't stopped agencies from enforcing or following them, states from following them, or law enforcement from adhering to them.

He is given the power the other branches of the government and states give him, and they all give him everything.

Lots of the executive orders have no legal standing, where he has no authority over what they change. Yet here we are.

[-] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 12 points 5 months ago

An EO that's worth less, legally, than the paper it's written on. If the states fight it.

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[-] Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 10 points 5 months ago

Struck down by a court in 5... 4... 3...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mark my words: this will go to SCOTUS just slowly enough that they'll use it as an excuse to decide it after the election, or at least that it'll be "too close" to the election for the ruling to apply.

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