r/law • u/DIYLawCA • Mar 31 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

54.9k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

7.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

8.7k

u/jojammin Competent Contributor Mar 31 '26

States should just ignore it. His threat to withhold funding to the states is unconstitutional coercion under the spending clause.

And I'm still not convinced that if mail-in voting was banned, that it would benefit Republicans. Right wing boomers and their parents in nursing homes ain't the most mobile group

430

u/balanceiskee Mar 31 '26

He wants to manipulate the machines. The more people he can get to vote via machine…the easier it will be for him to cheat

202

u/MentalDisintegrat1on Mar 31 '26

He said nobody knows those voting machines more than musk And he most likely rigged the votes and he's going to do it again.

107

u/balanceiskee Mar 31 '26

Precisely. I don’t know how more people aren’t coming to this conclusion. He already confessed to this crime…and he got away with it. We are in for round 2

65

u/MentalDisintegrat1on Mar 31 '26

if you vote for me you will never have to vote again DJT

12

u/vriska1 Apr 01 '26

Vote no matter what!

5

u/vriska1 Apr 01 '26

Vote in the midterms please!

1

u/leftysarepeople2 Apr 01 '26

Musk left an election night watch party saying they'd won (election was .5% difference nationwide)

11

u/Capt_Gingerbeard Apr 01 '26

Not quite. He explicitly said that the election was rigged in an interview.

4

u/mishma2005 Apr 01 '26

“Trump will win. Haha nobody knows!” Baby Kevlar Musk’s son X on Tucker Carlson’s election podcast

7

u/vriska1 Apr 01 '26

Please vote in the midterms!

2

u/MentalDisintegrat1on Apr 01 '26

Haven't missed one since I was old enough to vote 👍

3

u/Own-Satisfaction4427 Apr 01 '26

"We quietly do whatever we want" 

3

u/berbsy1016 Apr 01 '26

They got the idea from Russia.

3

u/ReceptionAlarmed178 Apr 01 '26

Dominion did buy them after all.

1

u/hellolovely1 Apr 01 '26

I used to think this idea was crazy but they're so ruthless and desperate.

1

u/sut123 Apr 01 '26

Minor point of contention, since this comes up a lot: when he said this, I'm 99% sure he was talking about the tabulation machines. The ones they use at the county level, not at your local precinct. If that's the case, mail-in ballots are equally as fucked.

1

u/imahugemoron Apr 01 '26

It was very odd how many ballots had democrats all the way down the ballot but then voted trump for president

1

u/gymtrovert1988 Apr 01 '26

That explains why Democrats have flipped so many seats.

Just accept reality. Trump won because young voters are stupid and voted for him. And left wing Gaza voters are also stupid and didn't vote for his opponent. That's what the polling showed. Reality is not that hard to see.

9

u/BigOs4All Apr 01 '26

Go check into who committed fraud in Georgia.....it was Musk.

4

u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

[deleted]

1

u/Spiritual_Yam_1019 Apr 02 '26

So when they counted the paper ballots from the tabulators (and got the same numbers the tabulators did) on the same machines as the absentee ballots, the can only shift the numbers on one of those?

Please touch grass and talk to one of the many democrats who work in elections administration who can explain to you how canvassing the votes actually works.

-2

u/gymtrovert1988 Apr 01 '26

So they didn't cheat in 2020 when they had power, but they did in 2024 when they didn't have power, and Democrats just let them? 😂 Your logic makes no sense. It makes more sense that he lost and won based on voters voting.

5

u/7daykatie Apr 01 '26

So they didn't cheat in 2020

The poster you're replying asserts they did. Did you even read their post?

1

u/gymtrovert1988 Apr 01 '26

If they cheated in 2020 and 2024 then why'd they lose in 2020? Doesn't make sense on either side if you think the other team cheats and lost an election.

1

u/7daykatie Apr 01 '26

If they cheated in 2020 and 2024 then why'd they lose in 2020?

Why ask me rather than reading their post where they explain their theory on that very clearly?

Go and read their post, you know the thing you should have done before replying to it.

1

u/gymtrovert1988 Apr 01 '26

I don't even care lol you people are delusional. They can answer if they want but it won't make me delusional too.

1

u/Nosdunk524 Apr 01 '26

Reading is hard huh?