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Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.

The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.

These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.

Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.

Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.

Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Also he's 0 for 17 on suing states for their voter rolls.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, a lot of red states probably handed the voter rolls over willingly, without needing a lawsuit at all.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Red states gonna Red state.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is really strange, because the voter rolls are public information in every state of the Union. You can just buy them, and many political action groups do.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it's not actually about the voter rolls.

Also Trump famously doesn't pay people.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't know how to switch accounts and fucked up my wife's entire persona she was building by commenting under her account. Instead of deleting the comments when I realised my mistake, I just switched accounts and left those comments there for her to find when she woke up. I claim to have planned to go back to delete them, but instead I was just gonna completely forget about them.

[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Why people don't switch profiles on the operating system level and just let family fuck around with their stuff I'll never understand.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Art of the Spiel