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Public perceptions about slow vote-counting lend some credence to Trump’s mail-in ballot criticism.How did Donald Trump convince so many people that the 2020 presidential election was stolen? The question is relevant again as the president renews his campaign against mail-in ballots. “You can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots,” he said Monday, and an executive order targeting the practice is supposedly in the works. Trump’s campaign against mail-in voting in 2020 foreshadowed his efforts to delegitimize Joe Biden’s election victory. But as two studies published last month illustrate, Trump might have been pushing on an open door. Insofar...

"I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS,” President Trump declared Monday in a Truth Social post. Later that day, he promised an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they are corrupt. You know we are the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, just about, the only country in the world that uses them because of what happened, massive fraud all over the place.” Trump has remained consistent; even before the 2020 election, he warned: “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting.” Trump doesn’t need...

Driving the news: Trump, in a Monday Truth Social post, also said he'd also target "Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES." Trump has argued mail-in voting was a source of cheating in the 2020 election, despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud. Trump also incorrectly claimed that the U.S. is the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting. Many countries offer some form of postal voting. The latest: Asked about his post Trump said "we're going to stop mail-in ballots because it's corrupt." He said he'd start with an executive order "that's being written...

SummaryTrump warns states to comply with coming executive order Trump also targets voting machines The move would disproportionately impact Democratic voters WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a move likely to disproportionately favor his Republican Party and spark legal challenges by some states.Democratic voters typically use mail-in ballots more than Republicans, who more often vote in person.Trump's pledge is his latest effort to reshape the midterm election battlefield to his party's advantage. He...

I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled Texas can enforce a law requiring ID numbers for mail-in ballots. A three-judge panel unanimously overturned a lower court’s block on the state’s mail-in ballot requirements. The three judges included: Judge James Ho (Trump), Judge Don Willett (Trump), and Judge Patrick Higginbotham (Reagan). “We have no difficulty concluding that this ID number requirement fully complies with a provision of federal law known by the parties as the materiality provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” the judges ruled. “The ID number requirement is obviously designed to confirm that each mail-in ballot...

THIS IS INSANE: If the liberal wins in Wisconsin next Tuesday, she will REMOVE 2 GOP Congressional districts... WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE BRAD SCHIMEL: "Little did I know when I got into this race 16 months ago that we were going to be called the most important race in America in 2025." "My opponent got caught by the New York Times getting on a Zoom call with our state Democratic Party chair and billionaire leftist donor, Reid Hoffman, promising that if she got elected on the court, they would turn two Republican congressional seats into Democrat congressional seats." "Now, just...

Thanks to mail in voting, democrat James Malone started off with a 25-30% point lead. Why do mail in ballots ALWAYS favor democrats? I really hope Elections are truly fixed by 2026 midterms… right now we have the Presidency, House, and Senate. There are no excuses anymore why they shouldn’t.

While requiring voters to prove they are who they say they are does make elections more secure, the reality tends to be more complicated.Pennsylvania, which cemented itself as a true swing state in the last few presidential elections, does not currently require voter ID at the polls, other than for first-time voters. The rumblings about the need for Pennsylvania voter ID are intensifying, and yet another in a long string of bills was just introduced.Social media punditry — by self-proclaimed experts — would lead the casual observer to believe that voter ID is the answer to all election integrity woes...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed a bill to speed up Arizona’s vote-counting process by requiring in-person mail-in ballot drop-offs to be completed before Election Day. Under the new law, voters would still be allowed to send in their ballot or deliver their ballot to the County Recorder’s office by 7 pm on election day, but early in-person drop-offs in ballot drop boxes must be completed by 7 pm on Friday before election day. It can be recalled that Katie Hobbs stole her election for Governor from Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake when 60% of voting machines failed on election day,...

Louis DeJoy, the head of the U.S. Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said Tuesday, after a nearly five-year tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic, surges in mail-in election ballots and efforts to stem losses through cost and service cuts. In a Monday letter, Postmaster General DeJoy asked the Postal Service Board of Governors to begin looking for his successor. “As you know, I have worked tirelessly to lead the 640,000 men and women of the Postal Service in accomplishing an extraordinary transformation,” he wrote. “We have served the American people through an unprecedented pandemic and through...

TALLAHASSEE — A controversial 2021 state law making it harder for people to vote by mail could complicate holding special elections to fill two Florida congressional seats after President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republicans Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz to serve in his administration. The 2021 law included requiring voters to request mail-in ballots each election cycle, rather than every four years as was previously allowed. The Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved the change after Democrats across the country relied heavily on mail-in ballots to help President Joe Biden defeat Trump in 2020. Trump this week set the stage...

Five Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter applications and mail-in ballot applications in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day.. Evidence from the voter registration application fraud cases has stunned Pennsylvania over the past week, leading all the way to Arizona in a private for-profit industry that tries to register voters across counties and has increasingly raised legal concerns. As counties in Pennsylvania have investigated fraudulent voter applications in recent weeks, one group from Arizona has been of particular interest as it works out of Lancaster County, which is home to a large Amish population that both...

Blue Miami-Dade county in Florida flipped from Democrat to Republican in early and mail-in voting combined Thursday afternoon, according to the latest election results. The live update at 2:32 p.m. Eastern showed Republicans across the state of Florida leading Democrats in terms of early and mail-in voting combined, seeing 44.20 percent for Republicans — or 1,382,165 votes — to the Democrats’ 35.54 percent, or 1,111,890 votes.

Election officials in Erie, Pennsylvania just admitted that they "incorrectly" sent duplicate mail-in ballots to almost 300 voters due to a "software issue." The county outsourced its mail-in ballot operation to a private company out of Ohio called Election IQ. I have some questions for Election no-IQ. What kind of software glitch causes two ballots to be shipped to 300 different people? Has this glitch occurred in any other election? As for Erie officials, why can't you guys handle your own mail-in voting operation? How hard can it be? Will you now terminate the contract you have with this garbage...

There is no question that America’s elections are broken. However, one state arguably wins the prize for the most crooked elections in the nation, and that state is Michigan. ... To date, Michigan’s Soros-funded SOS Jocelyn Benson has lost 10 election-related lawsuits, in which the plaintiffs sued her for intentionally weakening the state’s election security. One of the many lawsuits against MI SOS Benson was filed by the RNC in March. The lawsuit accuses the Democrat SOS of having more active voters on the voter rolls than eligible voters in 53 counties in Michigan. ... The July 2023 U.S. Census...

Mail-in ballots are being requested, by the thousands, in locations which are undeliverable – in Wisconsin. If nobody is there, who the hell is requesting that ballot? This is the heart of the 2024 STEAL – and it is happening in plain sight, for the world to see. ... Below is a list from our colleague, Peter Bernegger of locations where a mail-in ballot was REQUESTED recently in Wisconsin! ... Welcome to the 2024 steal – you are watching the work of Leftist NGOs, operating in unison ... Wisconsin will be decided likely by 25,000 votes, perhaps fewer. Yet already...

SIERRA MADRE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Sierra Madre man says he found a stack of election ballots stuffed inside a storm drain, and he's now speaking out about the discovery. Jay Senese was doing some landscape work at his home Saturday when saw something strange in the storm drain next to his house: nearly a dozen mail-in ballots. He said he got on his hands and knees and started scooping them out and noticed the addresses were from his Arcadia neighbors a block away. "We're trained here to keep stuff out of the storm drain... I pull out a bunch...

Democrats are counting on greatly expanded, no excuse mail-in voting in swing states to win the 2024 presidential election.The most striking feature of the contentious 2020 election was the sudden explosion of mass mail-in voting in states that had little experience with it, and the unprecedented levels of election interference that occurred as left-leaning nonprofit organizations such as The Center for Tech and Civic Life (which was behind “Zuckbucks”) and Democrat “lawfare” experts tried to make the best of this chaotic, mail-in ballot free-for-all.The mail-in ballot election of 2020 created the template for the Democrats’ new “Blue Wall” election strategy,...

In a huge blow to cheating Democrats, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday ruled that undated ballots or improperly dated ballots won’t be counted. Democrats heavily relied on mail-in ballots in 2020 to get Joe Biden across the finish line. Recall that President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by more than 750,000 votes in Pennsylvania at midnight on Election Day in 2020, but Democrats in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia kept counting ‘mail-in ballots’ for two weeks without GOP monitors present. Joe Biden ‘won’ Pennsylvania by approximately 80,000 votes after Democrats used mail-in ballots to cheat. Last month a lower court...