Even as he cast ballots by mail himself and launched messaging campaigns encouraging his supporters to do the same, Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to eliminate mail-in voting altogether, baselessly casting doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in votes.

Now he appears to be calling for the end of all forms of early voting.

After publicly demanding the prosecution of his political enemies, Trump encouraged the Department of Justice to investigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with “gusto” — and signaled that the “biggest SCANDAL in American history” will “happen again” unless the government eliminates early voting.

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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Being against having many options to let your vote be heard is very anti-American.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And many/most Republicans. Gerrymandering, limited voting areas, and intimidation at the poll are standard tactics to try and reduce people who might vote against them.

    To be fair, Democrats have gerrymandered in history as well. District lines should be an independent determination, not by who is currently in control of a state government.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GOP loses when Dem voters show up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Traditionally, the wisdom has been that non-voters lean left, so increasing turnout overall tended to benefit Dems. At least one Pew Research poll found that people who were eligible to vote but didn't were slightly more likely to have voted for Trump (44%) than Harris (40%).

    That said, yes, what we need is for Dem voters to definitely vote! (not sarcasm)

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  • [–] 134 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    States rights. Trump can go lick assholes.

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    [–] 60 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Sure thing. Make election day a federal holiday and allow for mail in ballots.

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    Honestly I never understood the push for this. Maybe it's because I grew up around people who never had federal holidays off. Tons of people still need to work on federal holidays. What makes way more sense to me would be not having a single "Election Day." Make it Election Week, everywhere, all the time.

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    All of the above.

    Colorado has early voting, mail-in voting, and places to drop off your filled-out ballot.

    It's absolutely beautiful.

    If you want to stand in-line the day of, you can do that, too. I've done that a few times, many years ago, and I think my longest wait was maybe 15 minutes, but that was out in the burbs, too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In Canada, your employer must give you 5 hours to go vote on election day. So in most cases, you either start work after 12pm or finish before 4pm. They could also give you 5 hours mid-day, but that's just tedious and not worth the trouble in most cases.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Its one of the oversites in the constitution in my opinion. It should have stated that all federal elections are federal holidays and congress is empowered to determine additional ones or something like that.

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The coward really can't stand the thought of a fair contest, can he?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    No early voting! No late voting! No mail-in voting! No black voting! No gay voting! No brown voting! No veterans voting!

    Fuck it, only JD Vance votes! Unless he votes for himself, and then it's massive voter fraud!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Have they sent them out? Haven't seen anything

    Edit: found it still in delivery at https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    You should have received your ballot by now, if you opted for mail-in. Call your local registrar of voters to make sure that they sent it, or else just go in on election day to do it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    They have indeed! You should be receiving countless emails and texts from the SOS as well (kind of love that California pushes people to actually vote).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's fucking weird that I haven't received anything

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He needs everybody to vote at polling places on the same day so his ICE thugs can round up antifa. They can’t do that if people are voting by mail or voting early.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And also close half the polling places without notice, and stop accepting new votes after 8pm even if there are still people in line.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably wants all votes on one day to better rig the elections.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    A bunch of people who will be voting against him are working class, and the insane US system is rigged against the working class so much, people can't get a time off of their jobs to go vote.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    What I hate so very much is that there is even a chance this asshole's wishes have influence on how we conduct elections anywhere in this country.

    He can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My fear is to is to have a single day election they could use national guard or something on blue counties to make it much harder to vote, like make special operations on the day of election and create grid locks on that counties.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    He doesn't know that STATES RUN THEIR OWN ELECTIONS apparently. Moron.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No mail in votes? That means your increasing access to in person voting, right? RIGHT!?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’ve filled out my mail-in ballot but I’m seriously considering physically voting on November 4th instead of mailing it in.

    As a white California resident I don’t feel I’ll be targeted by the racist “watchers” but I am worried about my mail-in vote being nullified.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    maybe in a red county in cali, but they are less rabid than the ones red states.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You haven't been in some of those red-dirt, cousin-marryin' mountain counties if you think they're any less rabid. I have family up there and they're no different than other family members who are heavily armed preppers holed up in the Idaho mountains with big stockpiles of canned goods and 12-gauge shells.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Fuck that guy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He can demand all he wants, the federal government doesn't get to decide how elections work.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The 2020 election claims are how they intend on pushing the third term shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    "No early voting! You have to go on election day and stand in line for 27 hours! No votes after election day can be counted! Oh we're also removing funding for poll locations, and we're limiting cities to one site for all ballot casting. Only cities though. Rural areas in red states are taking the funding and we're allowing all church going Christian Republicans two weeks to vote and we'll hand deliver their ballots."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It is easier to intimidate voters when they gather in one place on one day. It’s just good time management!

    🤮(these fucking people..)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    No early voting is one step closer to no meaningful voting.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    People, whoever can. Please don't mail in vote if possible. They're sabotaging mail in voting by hurting the post office and sometimes the mail itself. If you can, vote in person

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    California has very good tools for tracking the status of your ballots. The USPS is also independently funded as a Constitutionally guaranteed service, so it’s relatively safe.

    The reason they want to end mail-in and early voting is because it allows them to restrict access, intimidate voters, tamper with equipment, lose ballots, and all manner of other crimes. All voting should be done by mail as it limits their opportunities for engaging in fraud and crime. There is a reason they have been attacking it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Safe? They've been destroying mail machines and slowing service. It's a "they have already and continue to do" not they might.

    Mail in voting allows them to lose ballots. Often even more readily than in person because it doesn't require election officials being in on it.

    Voting by mail is not somehow magically more secure than voting in person.

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