Posted on 04/13/2025 10:22:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The edict could hurl elections into tumult, though lawsuits challenging the order mean it probably won’t be implemented anytime soon.
President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul elections could hurl 2026 into turmoil by forcing states to hand-count ballots or scramble to spend millions of dollars on voting systems that aren’t yet on the market, according to election officials and voting experts.
If put into effect, his recent executive order attempting to transform elections could make it impossible for some states to use voting machines, election experts said. No voting systems are commercially available that meet the standards the president put forward in his executive order. Election officials broadly oppose hand-counting ballots as an alternative because the practice is time-consuming and prone to errors.
If Trump’s plan ever comes to fruition, it could hit taxpayers hard. Outfitting every state with new machines could cost $1 billion or more.
“It will create chaos in the states, and it seems almost designed to create chaos,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research.
Trump’s order, however, probably won’t be implemented anytime soon. Scholars say he has exceeded his authority by claiming powers he doesn’t have, and his order quickly drew five lawsuits from state officials, Democrats and voting rights groups.
The directive Trump signed last month is aimed at requiring voters to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, changing the deadlines in some states for returning ballots by mail, allowing federal agencies to review state voter lists and making states buy new voting systems. It yielded legal challenges a week later from state attorneys general, the Democratic National Committee, the League of Women Voters, the League of United Latin American Citizens and others.
The White House said the administration will prioritize federal election funding for states that...
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Forget the voting machines. We don’t want or need them.
Good ol’ WAPO, always concerned about wasting money. /s
What did this country do before voting machines? It’s always a fking excuse with these cheating scumbags. They know they are 25% of the electorate and can not win an election without cheating.
Lever machines are NOT expensive.
Gonna watch this thread.
WP is worried about cost?
Election officials broadly oppose hand-counting ballots as an alternative because the practice is time-consuming and prone to errors.
I’d be willing to stick my finger in purple ink and use it to mark my ballot if it would help secure the vote. Voting machines are corrupt at worst, corruptible at best. I have zero confidence in them.
Leftwing communists/socialists are pushing “chaos” as their buzzword....which is ironic since they implement chaos wherever & whenever possible.
Whoa! The Washington Post is outdoing themselves in stoopidity here
We know it’s ok with them to send our big money to zelensky a low level dictator of a non democratic country which is not in NATo, not even in the EU, not even a democracy
They come at this from a money angle!?
So the WAPO favors cheating in elections.
Voter ID, paper Ballots, and Inked thumb. No registering a week before election. Can’t do it, Don’t get to vote.
Go back to the IBM punch cards
“If Trump’s plan ever comes to fruition, it could hit taxpayers hard. Outfitting every state with new machines could cost $1 billion or more.”
hell, we can pay for that out of what Elon and DOGE saved us in a day.
Machines commit murder. cars attacking people, and also they commit election fraud. Let’s put these machines in jail now.
paper ballots, purple ink and one day voting.
The left doesn't want to be eleminated on a level playing field.
Paper ballot and a pencil is cost effective to vote.
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