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."

[Lockbox]

Well stated!

[mmichaels1970]

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.

Thank you for providing a reasoned explanation as to how this can be done. Gives me something to consider.

[KevinB]

Elections are entirely the responsibility of the several State Legislatures. Fedzilla is already too big.

Article I Section 4
Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause

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. (Emphasis mine.)

[iontheball]

The federal government has to take the lead in returning the national voting process back to fundamentals. That includes getting rid of mail in ballots, except in very few limited exigent circumstances. Getting rid of drop boxes. Requiring universal mandatory voter ID. Abolishing voting and tabulating machines and return to manual counting and tabulation. Simplify and institute a national ballot process by restricting national elections to federal office candidates only - no local, state, or amendment offices or items on a national ballot.

[WildHighlander57]

Alberta’s Child wrote:

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The most consequential change that can be made is the elimination of permanent voter registration. Make every voter register again for every election. That way you’d eliminate this idiocy where people are still on the voter rolls long after they’ve died or moved to another state.
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There is a lot of moving around; would the deadline to register be the middle of the month before the election?

And they’d need their valid picture ID with the new address by then.

They’d have to bring their old picture ID and have it paper-punched to invalidate it.

[vespa300]

Maybe Fedzilla wouldn’t have to be so big if we had honest elections. Thats the whole point of honest elections. To ensure votes for limited Fedzilla are counted. If election integrity fails....it all fails and you have...Fedzilla.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

-Paper ballots
-No electronic voting machines (relegate Dominion to the dustbin of history)
-Valid ID to vote
-Proof of citizenship to vote
-illegal to ballot harvest
-extreme limitations on mail-in ballots

[1Old Pro]

Good things come from competent leadership.

[randita]

“National voting standards sounds like something unconstitutional. Elections are entirely the responsibility of the several State Legislatures. Fedzilla is already too big.”

Agree 100%. Letting Fedzilla get its nose in the tent just invites further meddling. When Dems own Fedzilla, they would change everything to their advantage.

No harm making recommendations to states, but no takeover.

[PGalt]

Yes (as Lockbox said), well stated! Thanks to all posters. Educational, solutions thread BUMP!

[Alberta's Child]

There is a lot of moving around; would the deadline to register be the middle of the month before the election?

All the more reason to end this stupid nonsense where people stay on the voter rolls indefinitely, right?

I had a business associate who got really curious about his own voter registration history in the aftermath of the 2016 election. He did the research and found that he still had active voter registrations in FOUR states: the one where he grew up and went to high school (he registered there when he turned 18), the one where he went to college, the one where he went to graduate school, and the one where he settled down after starting his professional career.

[Erik Latranyi]

Federalizing election laws will allow the left to change them when they have control, ensuring nobody can oppose them.

It is a states’ rights issue and our work need to take place in each state individually, at the grassroots level.

[Flavious_Maximus]

The best elections are those that are extremely transparent. One where ANYONE can audit the data themselves.

[WildHighlander57]

I know someone who moved from Oregon to Ohio and can’t get a Real ID driving license because the Oregon county records showing her name change (parents did this when she was a child) aren’t there, and she never needed proof of every name change till recently when she went to get her Ohio driver’s license.

And Ohio wanted a certified copy, not a photocopy, so any photocopy she might have is not acceptable.

Thus she can’t prove she was born in the US to either legal permanent residents or US citizens.

I figure all she can do is try and get people together that know of the name change and go to a lawyer and court to establish proof of name change.

Then she could legally prove the changes from her birth certificate name to her current name.

[nodumbblonde]

I wasn’t a fan of electronic voting machines until working in the Clerk’s Office and being part of the process. I can only speak for the machines we use but I could find no way for them to be tampered with.

Having set up machines myself, I was able to assure people they were in no way WiFi capable and were only plugged into wall outlets. A time-stamped paper vote “receipt” was enclosed in the machine for the voter to review before pushing the “cast vote” button in order for them to double check their vote before casting it. At the end of the day, the paper receipt had to tally with the information downloaded to a memory card that was specific to that machine and sealed in an envelope specific to that machine before it left the premises.

Before and after election day, each machine was locked in a hard case with a tamper-proof numbered lock specific to that machine. Two people from opposing parties returned the machines to the courthouse for tabulation.

The ONLY opportunities for potential fraud I saw was with the paper absentee ballots. You could have someone pick up/return your ballot and all they had to do was show ID and sign a form saying they did so. Big whoop. No way to know what was done with that ballot in between.

Returning a trunk full of paper ballots for tabulation with two willing conspirators seems possible. I don’t see any way for even 100 conspirators to do anything with the electronic machines we use.

This is just my experience with our county’s machines but it made me so much more confident in the process we have in place here and I was a complete skeptic. YMMV. 😊

[metmom]

It’s not those common sense standards.

And with the left, they can twist anything. It would have to be carefully considered and implemented.

[OKSooner]

I’ll do you one better than that...

[Erik Latranyi]

Supreme Court case Foster v. Love (1997):

So you like the usurping of state power? You do realize this was the same court that upheld Roe?

We need to stop thinking like the left and federalizing all issues. Let's fight this at the state level as we will fight abortion.

[rlmorel]

That is your opinion, and I respect that, but the Constitution is there for a purpose.

What happens in federal elections in Georgia affects everyone in every other state, as we saw in 2020, not only in the Presidential race, but the Senatorial race, much to the destructive detriment of the entire country. People who voted for Trump in EVERY other state had their choice negated by corruption.

Leaving it up to them to exploit the holes in states controlled by corrupt people will not remedy the problem.

[metmom]

Proof of citizenship is another one I could get on board with, along with sharing voter rolls, so that people with out of state summer homes don’t get two votes in two different states.

And college students can’t register in the state in which they are attending college, but whose permanent residence is home.