Lara Trump Touts big Changes to Election Process After Inauguration

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[dennisw]

While the details of this potential change to the U.S. electoral process are thin, the suggestion of the RNC co-chair seems to confirm many experts' fears that Donald Trump's return to the White House might significantly transform American democracy.

A "blanket federal election process" is likely referring to a desire to standardize procedures at the national level instead of letting every state choose its own process; this might include the homogenization of the deadlines for mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, and when votes are counted across the country.

Talking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday after her father-in-law's historic victory about how to make the election process more secure and transparent, Lara Trump said that with Donald Trump in office, a GOP majority in the Senate and potentially in the House as well, the Republican Party finally has a chance to address the issues "99 percent plus of Americans agree on." These include, according to Lara Trump and Hannity, proof of citizenship and voter IDs.

"We don't have a perfect system right now," she told Hannity. "We have to get through this system, we have to play the hand that we were dealt. You have election season now instead of election day, and a lot of nuance around the country that makes it very confusing and really concerning for a lot of people."

[unread]

"While it may be tempting, a national voting standard sounds like the kind of thing Democrats would do."

I couldn't say for sure, but it seems to me the rats already have their standards installed and running pretty well. That, of course, would be no standards at all.

We need a good voter ID system nation wide. And if your unable to obtain an ID to vote there's probably a good reason for it..

[ChessExpert]

You have a point. Would it matter if the national voting standard applied to Federal elections only?

Perhaps the venue for this topic should be the Convention of States project. That would seem to be the most feasible way to amend the Constitution.

[Sequoyah101]

I don’t know it but I believe the RNC first tried regulatory channels and then went to stronger stuff to slow the steal. After appeals to Pennsylvania authorities fell on deaf ears you began to hear the quite indications that local sheriff departments began to take action on their own. The “dem Voter Security” badge people disappeared. Then there was the multi-language ad that told people that if you vote and you are not a citizen and not properly registered you can go to jail. I think that put the brakes on the NGO encouragements.

[Jonty30]

Yes, I am aware that elections are administered by the states. Congress can write the laws and states can do what they deem best to administer the laws. That is my understanding of the relationship between the federal government and the states on election laws.

The 15th Amendment seems to suggest that as well.

[discostu]

Unconstitutional. Also look at how long it took to get RealID, so even if it was constitutional (which again, it isn’t) it would take 50 years to make happen.

[rlmorel]

I am fully onboard with federally mandated guidelines on federal elections.

I get the concerns about state's rights, but this is too important to leave to the vagaries of individual state legislatures, as polluted as many of them are with Leftists. And this deals not only with the electoral process at the voting level, it should address the holes the founders unknowingly left in the Electoral College, where the Left has worked overtime for decades to exploit and subvert.

By the way, I don't fully blame the founders for those holes in the handling of the electoral college. John Adams summed it best when he said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

What we have seen from the Left, the Deep State, and the Assistant Democrats (RINOs) is a rampant deviation from the the precepts inherent in that statement by John Adams.

I am of the opinion that the terrible holes in the election process are wholly and irrevocably the result of deliberate action and deliberate inaction by the Left in order to enable abuse and corruption of the electoral process.

There are two fundamental tenets of our Republic that cannot be violated without damaging or destroying the foundation of this country:

We, as Americans, agree to be governed as long as these two elements are observed in theory and in practice:

1. All citizens get to choose who governs us through free and fair elections.
   
   
2. All citizens (including those who govern) are bound by the same laws, and treated the same under the law.

Those two elements comprise the foundation, the sacred contract between the governed and the governors in this Constitutional Republic.

And that is it.

Our government can (and does) violate any number of things without endangering the Republic, but violating either of those will invalidate every principle this Republic was founded on and will eventually turn us into an oligarchy, and then into a totalitarian state in the end.

And in the last eight years, the government has violated, or allowed the States to violate both of those tenets. What is not punished, is allowed. We must create law, and we must enforce the law, or we are lost.

WE MUST, VIA FEDERAL LEGISLATION OR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, CODIFY IMPORTANT FACETS OF THE FEDERAL ELECTORAL PROCESS. WE CANNOT LEAVE THIS UP TO INDIVIDUAL STATES.

[tennmountainman]

End the cheating once and for all.

[ChessExpert]

How do we get the states to act according to their own laws? Legislatures legislate. The SOS, state supreme court, or individual counties just make up rules during and after the election.

When state election laws are violated, I see nothing wrong with an immediate response. This could be at the Federal level if need be because the US Constitution has been violated.

[Lazamataz]

I might normally agree, but the Democrats already violated the Constitution with the Civil Rights Act. I happen to agree with the outcome, that minorities no longer faced Poll Taxes or tests to be able to vote.

So, I wouldn't have a problem with Federal legislation ordering that states stop counting after election day.

[Sequoyah101]

Exactly and thank you. I did't believe that what I was taught in Civics more then half a century ago was a lie. Included in that teaching was that felons are not permitted to vote, non-citizens are not allowed to vote. NO exceptions. As for national standards only someone who wanted to manipulate the elections would want anything else.

Screw up your own state if you want to but holders of a national office are not representatives of a state, they "belong" to all of us and national selections standards are required and expected.

[Sacajaweau]

Drop boxes should be inside a polling place and ballots should be time stamped before they're put in the box which is monitored 24/7. Boxes are only available during the same time the polling places are open. In other words...no middle of the night.

So two lines (or two entrances) at the polling place; one for voting and one for drop off.

[Track9]

My thoughts exactly.

[nikos1121]

Yes. Photo ID is a must.

[tennmountainman]

Basic Standards can be and should be done.
Like Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship
Basic things.

[Sequoyah101]

Please explain how uniform voting standards for national office can "backfire" or be wrong.

Only citizens vote, Voter photo ID and registration, time to vote, limited absentee voting as it used to be, one person one vote. Same things used all around the world. What can be wrong with these standards? How would they "backfire"?

[MayflowerMadam]

Absolutely. If there is a Federal race on any ballot, there should be some basic standardized Federal laws. If no Federal races, then states can knock themselves out with various looney laws.

[BobL]

“National voting standards sounds like something unconstitutional.”

I’m not too hot on it either, but there might be some basic laws that will prevent 99% of the cheating, such as:

1. Voter ID linked to state databases (such as driver license)
2. Signature Verification
3. Paper printouts of all ballot selections, which are then dropped in a secure box
4. Basic rules for mail-in (over 65 without a driver license, or infirmed, only) - no ‘Universal Mail-In’
5. Early deadline on registrations, so that they can be checked for legitimacy (such as 4 months prior to election day).
6. Second deadline on registrations, such as 2 months prior, where those votes are conditional, and will only be applied after review, and only in close elections. (idea of these 2 is to prevent last-minute registration drops).
7. Equal access to voting for White and now Hispanic voters.

(probably a bunch more...)

[EQAndyBuzz]

Take people out of the equation. Vote by phone. No one is disenfranchised, especially our military people overseas. It is simple to do and with Musk being part of Trump’s administration, he has the technology to build a hack proof system.

Here is how it is done. You drop the voting application to your iPhone or Android device. Your SSN is your ID. You create and validate your password via email. You have two-factor authentication so no one can steal your ID. When you login after validations, your state’s ballots come up. You vote and then get a text which is your receipt.

On the backend, SSN’s are loaded into the database and validated when you sign on. After you vote, your name is crossed off the database. One person, one vote. Beauty of this is the excuse of disenfranchisement is gone. Also, ballot harvesting is gone, mail in ballots are gone. Plus, cheating like dead people voting and people voting multiple times are gone.

You not only have a secure voting method, but the voter rolls get cleaned up.

[Steven Tyler]

States shall use paper ballots. Results must be reported same day as vote.

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

Although the Elections Clause makes states primarily responsible for regulating congressional elections, it vests ultimate power in Congress. Congress may pass federal laws regulating congressional elections that automatically displace (“preempt”) any contrary state statutes, or enact its own regulations concerning those aspects of elections that states may not have addressed. The Framers of the Constitution were concerned that states might establish unfair election procedures or attempt to undermine the national government by refusing to hold elections for Congress. They empowered Congress to step in and regulate such elections as a self-defense mechanism.

[mmichaels1970]

The Constitution still means something so long as at least one side is willing to stand up for it, even when it includes something that is difficult or that we disagree with.

If both sides decide to pick and choose what they do and do not want to comply with, then it may as well be tossed in a trash can.

The Constitution provides a way to establish a streamlined election process for federal elections. A Constitutional Amendment. Doing an “end around” is a hypocritical, anti-conservative action imho.