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.
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.
Oh sure, the constitution, that is totally meaningful. Yep. The Trump administration would never violate the constitution.
My point was that they aren’t affected by the government being shut down.
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.