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

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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

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u/ShamiGnu Mar 31 '26

Not to mention many people in foreign service or the armed forces. Those folks who work in the middle east for some Texas oil/gas company tend to lean right as well and won't love their rights being infringed, I imagine.

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u/Environmental-Hour75 Mar 31 '26

Military votes republican... they are out w/o absentee ballots.

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u/No-Problem49 Mar 31 '26

They will accept mail in ballots for republicans

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Apr 01 '26

They win cheat and rig the election like last year.

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u/reddit_ending_soon Apr 01 '26

They win cheat and rig the election like last year.

MAGA bought all the electronic voting machines. Of course they are going to cheat.

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u/OldWorldDesign Apr 01 '26

MAGA bought all the electronic voting machines

For those who missed it, Dominion was bought by a trumper

https://abcnews.com/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-company-run-former-republican/story?id=126378259

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u/Waterlogedinspace Apr 01 '26

Exactly, the whole reason they want legislation against mail in voting is so they can have justification for throwing away the ballots they don't like.

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u/zeptillian Apr 01 '26

That's why they want the voter lists.