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[–] 85 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Executive Orders are NOT laws.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I don't think he can actually do that, but even if this works it mostly hurts older voters. He's eating the chess pieces again.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Not having mail-in voting would hurt workers who either can't take the time off or would have to suffer not having that income for the day. Add on top of that the constant barrages to polling locations, limiting the number of locations, and some people won't even get to vote after waiting all day.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Yes it will, but statistically it would hurt older voters the most. 40% of voters 65 and older vote this way.

    I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm just pointing out that this won't help him as much as he thinks.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    It'll hurt everybody. My state has had mail-in only voting for decades now and we have much higher turnouts than most other states. Even if you have the day off, nobody wants to stand in line for 7 hours just to vote some piece of shit "lesser evil" into power.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Does your state have dropboxes?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yes typically at businesses like grocery stores or county facilities.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Those should be used instead of USPS anyway, and it would ultimately make it so states could just switch to those and not care about the postal service. While it is more convenient to mail it and would absolutely affect turnout in some way, it's not much more difficult to go a few blocks (or stop while going to the grocery store) and drop off your ballot. It would remove the power of this illegal order since it's centered around the USPS not delivering ballots to election facility.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    If it "works" it'll be in being applied selectively. They can not apply it in red zip codes and apply it in blue ones, aided by whatever voter database Republicans build. Say some sort of grandfather clause where certain types of existing voters (like those whose grandfathers were all voters) didn't need to reapply.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago

    Just one more step in the name of fucking the next election.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    This means fuck all and it just gives our 5-year-old president the idea that he did something important.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    States run elections.

    Blue states should ignore this.

    Red states can go ahead and obey their pedo god and not tally as many conservative votes.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Except it's possible some less than ruby red states would flip due to low Republican turnout since gas prices are up. But instead of flipping blue, this might be all it takes to keep it red.

    It's government overreach and gives the states nonsense to point to. "Our hands were tied. We had to do this because the federal government said so... We stay in office. Checkmate".

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Lie, cheat, and steal. It's all he knows how to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    "The results for the Election Of 2036 are in, and Blessed Leader Barron had been re-elected unanimously!"

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I do declare! That my hair is awful and he is as Orange as an oompa loompa. That's the only EO that could be factual from that dude.

    Though I'm Canadian so he can suck ass as far as I'm concerned since he 'asked' us to be a part of his failing Empire.

    Seriously why aren't the US citizens revolting from what he does in all the US people's name. It is the entire US populace he puts on his stain afterall. In a democracy people have the power are we to assume that the US citizens condone his actions?

    I mean I know many don't agree but seriously some shit needs to be stepped up to show so if you don't. This dude is wrecking the entire world economy and world relations. Which is exactly what so many billionaires want so they get their slice of the world.

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