Trump Wants to End Mail-In Ballots and ‘Highly Inaccurate’ Voting Machines
Trump isn’t wrong. We’ve seen too many instances of problems with mail-in ballots and machines.
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will sign an executive order to “bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections.”
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 THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender and “WOKE” for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Trump has opposed mail-in voting for a long time.
I mean, we have seen Democrats stuffing those boxes where you can drop off your ballot and find mail-in ballots.
- September 2023: Video shows woman stuffing ballot boxes
- November 2023: Ballot-Stuffers Caught on Camera Have Upended a Race for Mayor
- October 2024: Sierra Madre man discovers stack of mail-in ballots in storm drain
- November 2024: USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines
We’ve also seen court cases regarding which ones to count for instances, such as accurate envelope dates.
How many times have we seen voting machines messing up? Too many!
- November 2018: Florida: Broward County Hits Deadline, Palm Beach County Misses Due to Faulty Machines
- November 2022: Arizona, New Jersey Electronic Voting Machines Already Causing Problems
- November 2022: PA’s Luzerne County Polls Open Until 10 PM Because Machines Ran Out of Paper
- August 2024: Vulnerabilities Found in Voting Machines, But Cannot be Fixed by November
- October 2024: Michigan: Some Dominion Machines Will Make Voting ‘Inconvenient’ for Those With Disabilities
It’s ridiculous. I found way too many articles about messed up mail ballots and voting machines.
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FINALLY! Mailin ballots just scream CORRUPTION and will surely be opposes by the dems, but then, they oppose anything and everything Trump proposes anyway, including being ‘tough on crime’.
Thank you President Trump for your attention to this matter.
And, while you’re at it Mr president, do away with ‘early voting’ too.
Voting should be done with pride and not ‘when you get around to it’.
And, while I’m opining this morning, make election day the first Saturday after the first Friday in November to accommodate people who don’t like Tuesdays.
I don’t have a problem with early voting but I would rather see it limited to the Sat/Sun/Mon prior to election day. It’s easy for retirees or people who don’t work for a business with a 24 hour contractual obligation to clients to say, everyone should be able to just walk away from work to vote, or spend 4 or 5 hours standing in line to vote but that’s not the way it works in real life. The population of registered voters in the USA exceeds the total population of most countries in the world.
They could add more voting stations. It seems to me that limited places to cast a vote is a great way to keep who you don’t want voting away.
That costs $$ and volunteers, which many poorer parts of the country don’t have.
No to centralized voting centers/polling places for sure. Gotta be careful not to have too many polling places through b/c without enough volunteers to run/staff them and very importantly have Political Party reps on site provide ability to observe and challenge a voter or ballot then shenanigans are easier.
TX does a good job with in person early voting. As long as the early voting period is no more than two weeks out from ‘election day’ and conducted in person then I don’t have too much objection to it. I’d be far more concerned about lax absentee ballot rules.
But, leave the polls open beyond sundown for those observing the Sabbath.
My idea, expressed in other threads: 24 hour voting time, with time zone compensation. That way, ALL polls close at the same time. None of this media hanky panky of reporting the eastern and central time zone results causing folks to give up on going to the polls.
Why should the Jews get special voting privileges (i.e. extended voting time) just because they are Jews. Nope. Nope. Nope. If they can’t make it to vote in person because of their religious requirements then they shouldn’t be allowed to vote and tough titties to them.
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It’s not a privilege. On the contrary, Jews would have highly restricted voting times; rather than all day, they would only be able to vote in the hour or two remaining of the day after it got dark. In that short time they’d have to hurry home, bring the Sabbath to an end, and then get in the car and pack the polling place to overflowing so as to be within the doors before they were closed.
And you’d still need postal voting for the elderly, disabled, and otherwise homebound, hospital patients, etc. Normally you could substitute mobile polling places, as they do in Israel, but if you had it on a Saturday then the mobile polling place would have to visit all Jewish voters in such circumstances in that hour or so between the Sabbath and the close of voting. So allowing them to vote by mail would be the only realistic accommodation.
No, if you want to eliminate or nearly eliminate postal voting you need to have at least two or three days for in-person voting.
If you’re so lazy you can’t be bothered to vote in person when you’re perfectly capable of doing so, you should forfeit your vote for that election. Voting is a privilege, not a right.
And, if one is too lazy to walk, drive, take a bus, or a cab / uber to a voter registration office, you don’t vote/
No motor voter, no mail-in registration.
Says who, exactly.
Well, it’s not a constitutional right. The franchise is in the first place in the hands of each state to determine. The 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments progressively limited how the states can restrict the franchise, and the Voting Rights Act further restricted it, at least for congressional elections, so the states have very little flexibility left, but in principle it’s still up to them to decide. For instance, each state still decides for itself whether and under what circumstances to allow convicted criminals to vote.
Most States take away your PRIVILEGE to vote if you commit any of a variety of serious felonies.
If voting were a Constitutional RIGHT they would not be able to do so.
Incorrect. States often restrict felon’s rights as part of their punishment. Restrictions of residence, travel, ownership of weapons, etc.
It is correct. If voting were a constitutional right then states could not strip felons of it, just as they can’t strip them of their freedom of speech, or their freedom of religion. They can only restrict those rights that are relevant to legitimate punishment of their crime, or to the fact that they’re dangerous. There’s no reason a state couldn’t allow felons to vote, even from prison, and some states do; so if it were a right all states would have to allow it.
The Constitution.
When we talk about voting rights and the right to vote what we’re referring to is that eligible voters access to polls should not be infringed.
Eligible voters, not everyone.
There used to be a landowner qualification, but today, only men are forced to do something to earn the privilege of voting.
To vote, men must sign up for the draft. To vote, men must be willing to be sent to die to defend freedom.
Women get to vote because men voted to let them. There is no responsibility attached to the franchise for women.
The franchise does not depend on registering for Selective Service. If someone does not register, it doesn’t directly affect his right to vote.
I suppose a state could make such a condition on the franchise, and it would pass constitutional muster, but as far as I know no state has done so. Congress could probably do it for congressional (but not presidential or state) elections, but again it hasn’t done so.
Now if someone were convicted of failure to register, that’s a felony, so it would depend on how that state treats felons’ franchise. If the state disenfranchises convicted felons, then of course someone convicted of this felony would be disenfranchised. Not because of his failure to register, but because of the felony conviction. He could have his franchise restored in the way that that state provides. In a state that doesn’t disenfranchise felons, his franchise would remain unaffected.
“Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,”
I can’t possibly be the only one who hears alarm bells at reading this. Trump is wrong. If he continues in this vain I will be very doubtful that he truly understands what it means for the U.S. to be a Constitutional Republic. The Constitution is very clear about the state’s role in elections and it is not as agents for the President.
I think it would be a good idea if Trump took a break from posting on “Truth Social” until somebody checks his caffeine level.
For Federal elections he’s not entirely off base. Congress can pass and the President can sign legislation setting all sorts of rules about those elections. See Art I, Sec 4 ‘.The time, place and manner….shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature……but Congress may at any time make or alter such Regulations except as to the places of choosing Senators’.
Please show me where it reads “The President shall at any time make or alter such regulations…” Had Trump written that he would be asking Congress to make changes, I would agree that was long overdue. That is not what he wrote.
To be clear then you agree with his main point that the ‘States act as ‘agents’ of the Federal Government’ for Federal elections, that the Feds can change how Federal elections are administered from voter registration requirements for Federal elections, to tabulation of ballots, certification of results and all steps in between and it is the method/means used to assert the existing authority to Congress v Presidential decree you find objectionable.
Fair enough. FWIW I agree with you, assuming I’ve accurately restated your position.
No, they’re still not agents. Congress can, and nowadays does, regulate how the states do all those things, and thus restrict the states’ flexibility, but they still act as principals, not as federal agents. The president has no role at all. And Congress has no such power over presidential elections. (And there’s that weird exception for the location of senate polling places.)
I think it would be an even better idea if someone changed all of Trump’s social media passwords and not allow him to make any more hysterical posts like this one. They do him no favors and just fuels the leftists with more stuff to rant and rave about.
The more the stupid communist rant and rave the less effective they are. Let them rant all they want
Trump is an impeccable troller.
The ONLY point of using voting machines is to get fast, accurate results.
Democrats have proven they will spend weeks ‘counting’ votes even when using machines, so either they’re not using the machines correctly, or they’re exploiting them to cheat. Either way it doesn’t matter.
If you use voting machines, you have an accurate count no later than 8 hours from close of voting. Anything else is cheating.
You get faster results with hand counting, because the number of hand counters expands exactly with the population of the district. You also get the advantage that it’s correct and believed.
Florida in 2000 would like to have a word with you.
That’s because they were using a cockamamie form of ballot. A ballot where candidates’ name are checked off are much less prone to have hanging chads.
And only in certain counties did that have the punch cards. My county had the ‘fill in the oval’ optical reader. Something i had been doing on exams since I was a kid. Tried and tue technology right there.
That was a flaw with their tabulation machines. As for the recount, that was totally partisan and extremely Limited
A machine can read and tabulate a vote in elections in milliseconds. A person cannot even turn a page in that time.
Plus, you are forgetting that elections have more than one race and issue.
In 2024, there were over 30 races for offices and issues (laws, bonds, etc,) on the ballot where I live.
There is no way counting votes on 30 races and issues by hand can be done faster by hand than by machine.
The county in which I live purchased optical readers for ballots after the 2000 election.
The procedure is you fill out a ballot, walk it over to the scanner and let it run through the machine. There is a counter on the machine which increases with every ballot that the reader takes in.
I always watch the counter to make sure the ballot was read and counted.
One year, the counter never moved. I said something to the precinct worker who said he was sure that the machine had counted the votes. But he also wrote on a log that there was a complaint.
I lived near the head of the precinct and asked her about it later.
She said that at the end of the day, they run the ballots through the counter at least twice but that day were getting different results. They posted the results as required, but would not certify the results as being accurate.
They hand counted the ballots. Twice. They got an accurate result and certified the results after that,
The following weeks they tried to figure out what had happened. Turns out there was a pinch roller that had lost a piece of rubber. The rubber had landed on one of the optical sensors for “seeing” the ballot as it ran through. No count, no reading of the votes.
When the machine would turn on and say “there is a ballot coming through,” the fan would blow the piece of rubber around, sometimes causing the sensor to be blocked and other times the ballot was recognized.
The mistake never would have been caught if not for recounting the ballots and hand counting the number of ballots.
As I said, these were optical reader machines that have a paper trail that can be verified. The machines that bother me are the “touch screen” machines were there is no paper or way of verifying the counts.
RI, where i live and vote, has the same type of voting scanner.
In NY state following the Bush-Gore election debacle in Florida they outlawed the old (and reliable) mechanicals lever machines to replace them with shiny high-tech solid state computerized machines.
Typical (D) reaction – just as with gun control they enacted a “solution” which doesn’t address the problem supposedly being solved (no hanging chads on our old reliable machines).
In addition it served a long-standing (D) agenda.
Just as (D)s use crimes committed by criminals to justify laws that don’t disarm the criminals – but DO disarm the law-abiding…..
They managed to replace voting machines that required massive physical effort to subvert and massive physical effort to hide the sabotage with ones that could be subverted easily with access and and just as easily reverted to normal leaving no forensic trace.
My first 4 national elections were on the massive “lever” type voting machines of which you speak.
In 1976, a series of the levers were disconnected in some of the machines and would not allow voting for Republicans. (This was in Democrat Baltimore.)
I moved to Florida in a county that had “punch card” type ballots. The machines were inspected every election at rather great expense to make sure there were no “hanging chads” which was not done in Palm Beach where the 2000 issue erupted.
The punch cards needed to have a tight tolerance between the actual punch and receiving die in order to cut the “chad.” I talked with one of the inspectors in my county (we went to the same church) who said they used micrometers to measure every thing within tolerances.
Some counties didn’t do that.
At the time of the 2000 elections, my county was already talking about replacing the punch machines and had ordered the new scanning machines. Because we had ordered them before the 2000 election, the county paid for the machines rather than the Federal government paying for them after 2000.
Funny that.
Like I said, I am a fan of the paper ballots that can be verified. I am not a fan of the touch screens or even the lever machines because those votes cannot be individually verified after the “machine tally.”
Those machines were not reliable at all. Not only could they be fiddled with, there was no record of individual votes at all, so there could be no recounts in case of doubt. You had to trust the numbers on the back of the machine, and couldn’t go back to the original ballots and verify them.
A favorite fiddle was simply to start the machines out pre-loaded; poll workers were supposed to ensure that they were all zeroed out at the start of polling, but there weren’t sufficient scrutineers from the political parties to be present at each polling place before the 6::00 AM opening to verify this.
For several years I was a poll worker in NYC in charge of opening and closing the machines at my location, so I know how it works. In the morning we break the seals on each machine, open the box underneath to visually verify that it’s empty, then put it back in and lock it up, then start up the machine and verify that all the numbers are at zero, and there’s a policeman on duty who also visually verifies that all the numbers are at zero. These are not all the way on the back of the machine where no one sees them, but on the front, visible to all voters.
At the end of the day, we and the police both write down the final numbers showing, then we print off the tape showing how many ballots from each table were cast on that machine, and all the tapes go around the tables where each team must account for all the ballots it was issued in the morning, showing how many were issued, how many were returned as spoiled, how many were cast at each machine, and how many are left over. Those numbers have to match, and if they don’t there’s a problem. You can’t always get an exact match, because you can’t prevent people from being issued a ballot and walking out with it rather than casting it. But that will only be one or two people at most, so if a table has a discrepancy greater than that it needs to be investigated and that holds up the entire site; no one goes home until everything is resolved and all machines are locked up and sealed, and the ballot boxes are in police custody.
So what you described, an inoperative scanner, seems like basic malfeasance on the part of the election supervisor. Gotta make sure all your crap works to stress.test before election day…to include ordering the correct paper stock, # of ballots in each precinct, printer ink, correct pens to mark ballots …all that crap, lots of detail work to do beforehand. The public should never accept BS excuses about lack of preparedness, failure to stress test, bad planning with create barriers to casting a ballot on election day. Start putting the folks responsible for failures in prison for malfeasance and things will be run far more effectively and successfully.
What? In 2000 my wife and I got 4 mail in ballots just for the two of us. Two each.
No voting machine can be trusted even by the people who write the code that the voting machine runs on, owing to a generic flaw pointed out by Ken Thompson in his Turing Lecture “On Trusting Trust.” It’s a little (but only a little) technical, but everything relies not only on the machine and the software at hand but on all the machines and software that at any time were in the line of its production, going back years. Checking the software does not help – it’s a permanent generic fault. All it takes to pull off is sufficient motivation.
Thompson gives an example of undetectable subversion of the UNIX login command but it works on anything. It would work on voting machines.
And with such a brilliant and proper idea put forward, prepare for the Democrats to once again crank up their cries of another “threat to Democracy”.
Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s all they have, and most Americans (the informed and sane ones), know it’s a crock of guano.
Our original voting system worked for 200 plus years, it worked just fine.
No, it didn’t. There was no “original” voting system, since there were 13 states and probably variations even within them. But whatever they started with didn’t last very long. There were constant changes and improvements.
For instance there were no ballot papers at all for the first century or so. Each person hand-wrote their own ballot, or brought in a pre-printed one that a political party had provided them with.
Also, for instance, there were no secret ballots. Each vote was cast in public, and your boss, your family, your landlord, or the US Army could be watching to make sure you voted as told.
Also, for instance, there were no secret ballots. Each vote was cast in public, and your boss, your family, your landlord, or the US Army could be watching to make sure you voted as told.
There is a special place in hell for those who lie like this.
Indeed you are a liar, and you are a demon from Hell. Your place is waiting for you. Go back there and stop bothering me.
Voting was ruined 105 years ago today.
That’s the 19th time I’ve heard that this week. 😉
And it’s still nonsense.
If it was ruined, it happened when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Not that such an act wasn’t needed, but the remedies it implemented were all wrong, and the real problems they solved were replaced by worse problems.
I once helped a campaign that was for a City Commission seat in a town of 11,000+ people.
The campaign would go to the Clerk of Elections for the County, and get a list of people who had requested mail in ballots. We’d print out labels, slap them on a mailer and send them out.
The town is near a military base which had people deployed around the world. That meant you had a residence with one person still here, and one person who was not present.
Mail in ballots allowed the service member to vote.
Do we want to bar deployed service members from voting?
The number of mail in ballots for the deployed was not insignificant. There were almost 1000 deployed men and woman, or 9% of the town’s population.
There was another category of people who owned property and lived in the city for over half the year, and owned another property in another state they lived in for the remaining six months. They legally registered in one state (the City) but due to primaries and even the general election, were not in state at the time of the elections.
Do we say those people cannot vote by mail?
This is not the black and white issue many people think it is.
military personnel are easily accounted for
the general population not so much
fraud can happen anywheres DOESNT MEAN that you get to use that truth as a reason to give fraud more of a chance to flourish
Actually, it is very ‘black & white.’ Most European countries have identical or near-identical systems to what Trump is proposing while also still accommodating members of their respective diplomatic/military member’s right to vote. For example, France allows no mail-in voting and no machine voting or tabulation. All voting is completed by paper-ballots and counted by hand and counting is COMPLETED within several hours of the polls closing.
The dysfunction that we see in blue states like California is a choice. It’s important to keep that in mind.
There is a huge difference between legitimate absentee voting for sick, elderly and military voters vs. automatic mail ballots sent to every registered voter. It is particularly bad in states where voter rolls are seldom if ever checked to make sure the voter is still alive, live in the state where registered etc.
Automatic mail in voting is an invitation to corrupt political machines to cheat and therefore that is exactly what the Democrats do.
Nothing to worry about if your concern is that Military personnel would be disenfranchised. Military and overseas Ballots have a separate set of rules and accommodation to request, deliver, receive, mark, return, and count from other ‘absentee’ or ‘mailed’ ballots. Each unit has an Officer or SR NCO appointed as their unit Voting Assistance Officer to help facilitate the process.
IMO, only Military personnel overseas and diplomatic or other Govt personnel sent abroad as part of their duties should be afforded the opportunity to vote absentee as presumption. Others could request an absentee ballot due to sickness, hospitalization, infirmity with supporting documentation, certified letters from Physician and the medical facility. That’s how we do it in Alabama but you also gotta provide a certified letter from the voter naming a family member (Spouse/Parent/Adult Child) to pick up from County Clerk, sign for it, hand carry the marked ballot back to the County Clerk to cut down on shenanigans.
If individuals decide to prioritize their lifestyle choices over their ability to cast a ballot by purposefully choosing to be absent from their voting precinct on Election Day (not on Gov’t orders)….that’s on them. It’s not on the rest of the community to solve their self imposed dilemma. Choices have consequences.
We most certainly do.
And your BS example of the military is laughable. The military can securely transmit soldiers’ votes without using the friggin mail.
The only people who are in favor of mail-in ballots are people who are out to cheat the system. The only ones!!
Sometimes people can’t make it to vote. Tough. It happens. You are guaranteed the right to vote, not the logistics to insure that you will vote. That is the individual’s responsibility and there are times that individuals will not be able to carry that out, either because of their own fault or, sometimes, extraneous events. It happens and that’s part of life. We do not destroy the integrity of our electoral systems in order to stop “life”. Elections need to be on one day.
We should also have limiting laws on ALL so-called “exception” provisions – that they cannot end up serving more than a true “exception” percentage of time or people – something like 1% or 2%. When we have a rule for exceptions that ends up serving 20% of the people then it is nothing close to an “exception” and is null and void.
Many people don’t bother to vote if it’s rainy.
The fact is that many people treat voting as the most frivolous act of their lives. They have absolutely no appreciation for it and no respect for the process, at all. Much of this comes from it being easy and free.
The less someone has to do or pay to get or do something the less they value it. This is almost universal among humans.
And that’s aside from all the corruption and cheating that comes with free, easy (effortless) voting.
We already had absentee ballots to account for all of the stuff you talked about. The difference is, of course, that you have to request it in advance and you have to have a valid reason.
But that’s what Trump says he wants abolished. It is a genuine problem, and needs to be much more restricted than it has been, but it can’t be abolished.
and worse …mail in balloting happens before the election day itself so not having a dateline to stop the ballots coming in long before the deadline and having the ability to properly count them has PROVEN that nefarious forces are at work to disrupt the civility of one person one vote
and then theres ranked choice voting……….
Yes, and then there’s ranked choice voting, which should be mandatory. No state should be allowed not to use it, because it’s the only system that produces a fair result.
That’s insane. Totally and completely insane.
Ranked choice is no longer “voting” but “gaming”. Anyone who advocates for it should be barred from voting. Deported – would be nice, too.
You are 180 degrees wrong. Completely turned around. Ranked choice is the only system that allows people to vote as they truly feel, and not game it. Every other system, especially the stupid first-past-the-post that we have, forces people to either vote for the second-worst candidate or accept that by not voting for that candidate they’re effectively casting half a vote for the worst candidate.
We don’t do “first-past-the-post” universally. Every state and election has its own process. Some use first-past-the-post, some use run-off elections. None of it has anything to do with ranked choice which needlessly turns an election into a game.
In elections, simplicity is the key factor. Ranked choice is an attempt to muddy the process with unnecessary complexity and gain some distance from simple, straightforward voting, in order to start instituting even crazier schemes in the future.
We get stuff like this because, somehow, places like California were allowed to push un-Constitutional and insane “jungle primaries” on the citizenry, which effectively turned the primaries into general elections with the secondary run-off being held on “election day” (though the concept of “election day” has also been abused and bastardized and destroyed).
No games. Simple voting processes. Integrity and clear understanding are the keys to fair electoral systems.
Again, what you write is the exact opposite of reality. Ranked choice is the only system that is not a game. And no, it is not “an attempt to muddy the process [..] in order to start instituting even crazier schemes in the future”. Places that have implemented it for most of a century have never tried to replace it. They’ve all been completely satisfied with it.
For ‘fair result’ read ‘leftist total victory’
Go back to Hell, liar. Quickly. You really are totally evil, without a single redeeming feature.
Rcv is a gift to the incumbent and the is nothing fair about that.
Every large, complex system we have is corrupt – except our voting system, which is perfect.
“Trump isn’t wrong” might be the understatement of the year as it relates to voting.
Liberals cannot win on a level playing field therefore they must cheat and cheat big.
There is NO WAY that anyone should be allowed to vote if they are not a citizen, cannot verify their identity. There should always be a paper ballot and vote tabulation should never have internet access.
Voting should take place on one day only. At 11:59 that’s it. If the ballot isn’t counted then it doesn’t count.
And there should only be one punishment for election fraud – death. There is no crime more serious than depriving men of their liberty, which is EXACTLY what election fraud is. You stuff a ballot box? You get the rope.
Do away with both early voting and mail-in ballots. With the ubiquitous of both RealID and the Internet, it should be a simple matter to use RealID to identify your precinct – no matter where you are – and print out the appropriate ballot. Go to the carrel, fill it out, drop it in the box. Vote is scanned locally, then transmitted to your “home” precinct. Easy peasy. The only, repeat ONLY, people who should be able to vote early are those who are physically incapable of accessing a real-time voting location – certain hospital patients, submarine crews, that sort of thing.
s/ubiquitous/ubiquity
Bah.
Leftists are prepping their usual attacks.
Note the usage of “life long Republican” in this article.
Reg is ok on some tech news, but very leftist in anything social or political.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/election_workers_fears_after_cisa_cuts/?td=rt-3a
yeah I read the article
and as usual
they dont call on the locals to do THEIR JOB CORRECTLY
police the areas that need policing
and the suspect was given 3yrs probation so it was a pat on the back so others could do the same
lets not forget one of the advantages that the fjb scheme accomplished
over loading of the system
just like a union
or blmplo riots in the streets
or tons of paperwork introduced to the courts
the mass influx of voters ,,unrestrained by any civilized laws,,, gave the beleaguered system more reasons to cause chaos and break down any chance at having a civilized voting process
Mail in ballots are sent to fake addresses, Mail Drop boxes, left on the floor at apartments for pick up. Sent to the same address for multiple people. All proven fraud over the years. The bigger mandate should be all counting and certification has to be completed by midnight the day of federal elections. If Florida can count all of their ballots by 11pm election night, so should the other 49 states.
Massive drop box stuffing has been shown to happen in many times and many elections. In the film 2000mules it was documented showing the 2020 Trump-Biden election in Atlanta metro and in some areas of AZ.
The Georgia State Senate committee in 21 ran an election fraud check and on the Electronic Election Machines they found that they could change votes without being connected to the internet. In 24 in California many of the counts went for weeks until the decisions were what was the Dems favor, which should not be needed if an voting machine is counting. I am sure the same thing happens in other states.
The Left….LEGALLY OR NOT changes grades and requirement /standards etc etc and wins in doing so
So why is there even a question that they are doing the same at the voting booth…THERE ISNT
the left even barely has to lie anymore about what they are doing since blmplo street armies have proven they will riot and get what they want…OR ELSE
stop funding the schools etc
THATTT IS THE METHOD to showing the left that they are going to have a fight on their hands
Democrats count ballots, not votes. That is how Biden got 81 million votes. And if you think Harris got only 2 million people votes less than Trump, you are a lot less smarter than she.
A lot of places once used mechanical voting machines because they are very tough to cheat as poll workers simply write down what is on a digit counter at the end of the day. Easy and accurate. Then they compared that count to the number of signatures of in-person voters and the results were trusted and sent up to the secretary of state.
Digital machines hide things in software codes. They also have connections to the outside world leaving them open to tampering. Since the poll workers and watchers cannot tell what the machine is doing, it should never be allowed to count votes in the first place. That’s how we protect ‘Our Democracy’.
Hear, hear!
And it is almost comical how people have argued the need for more and more sophisticated ways of doing one of the simplest tasks on Earth – straight counting of a finite number of ballots. As you wrote, mechanical machines were perfectly fine (I prefer them) and paper ballots are fine, too. But this idiotic drive that people had to use digital machines and that they must use the internet to transmit the votes (when there was nothing wrong with simply counting the ballots or recording the machine counts and calling in the results) was just crazy.
And every time I heard the digital machine manufacturers talking about “proprietary code” that they had to keep secret … to do a simple friggin COUNT!!!! It drove me up a wall.
We only have a chance of retaining congress and the senate thanks to Democrats being crazy.
Trump is president because he promised to deal with inflation and cost of living.
Holding true to the Biden economy, continuing to have the same employment numbers and inflation simply is not going to retain voters.
This isn’t the time to waste popularity and time on non-issues voters do not care about.
We don’t have the ‘same employment numbers’ as the Biden economy. Dig into the data and you find that so far there’s about two million additional US Born workers employed in the labor force while there’s a decline of foreign born workers by about 600K from Jan to July.
IOW more US Citizens employed. Not to mention decreased energy costs in fuel which means less transportation costs and lower retail prices. The energy theme, particularly with electricity prices, is gonna be quite the contrast between more permissive Red States who still use traditional generation v wokiesta Blue States who are now feeling the pinch of rising electricity prices due to foolish investment in grid level solar/wind while shutting down traditional electricity generation.
FWIW rising prices are a lagging indicator of inflation. Our inflation is created by by bad monetary policy; printing $ which expands the money supply and devalues the existing dollars. See the rising prices of gold,.silver, Bitcoin as more and more individuals (and foreign Central Banks) dump treasuries and the amount/% of US Dollars they hold and increase holdings of gold and Crypto to avoid Fed Reserve manipulation and debasement.
Begs the question.
How do you know what voters want when you can’t trust the vote?
he is in fact “dealing with the economy”
reciprocal tariffs is a great start
extending the lower tax rates is great
closing the border
HE ISNT ALLOWED TO STOP WELFARE…BUT WHY WONT CONGRESS!!
you end THAT perk to the lefty and allll those jobs that americans wont do
oh,,,they will
Sadly, cynicism about government has proved to be perfectly justified. The integrity and legitimacy of vote counts has, rightly, proven to be subject to question. Anything to improve that integrity and legitimacy would be welcomed. Sadly there are risks. It is the Left that engages in most of the election fraud, and indeed without it they would not be in power where they are.
Politics is how societies make decisions short of war. Our society supposedly uses electoral politics. Since election fraud is so critical to the Left, any attempt to clean it up has to include acknowledging and preparing for the risk that the Left will in fact go to war to prevent it.
Subotai Bahadur
This is major. The most important change in our laughable elections is to get rid of mail-in balloting. Mail-in balloting is insane and totally unjustifiable in every single way. Mail-in ballots violate every single characteristic of what we consider to be important in voting.
Mail-in ballots are impossible to verify – even with the signature checking (which the dems and our treasonous courts have stopped). Mail-inh ballots take away the secrecy of the ballot (the most important aspect of it). It used to be that a group couldn’t really buy votes because, whiule they could pay people for votes, they could never be assured that the people (like union members) actually voted the way they were supposed to – because the votes were secret, anonymous, and there was no record of the votes to check. But with mail-in ballots, votes can be bought and those buying them can be assured that the vote is being cast the way they want, since they can sit at the table and watch the person fill out the ballot and take it to the mailbox. And that’s just for a legitimate ballot by a registered voter, let alone all the illegitimate ballots being filled out for people who have no idea that they voted …
No serious election can take place when there are mail-in ballots (or drop-off box balloting). This is obvious and the only people who have supported this insanity have been cheaters – i.e. democrat scum. How our courts have allowed ANY of this is a testament to the pathetic, self-destructive nature of our society, when it really comes down to it.
It takes Trump to finally take action on this. This is why Trump is so important to America. This action, by itself, would be enough to seal Trump as one of the greatest Presidents of all time. Just this one little action – all by itself – that is so incredibly important to instilling any sort of integrity in our electoral processes.
My list:
Have elections from Fri-Sunday. 3 days to vote
Allow absentee ballots only if filed in person
Voter ID with pic required
Ink stamp on hand after voting
Ban vote harvesting
Mandatory yearly culling of voter rolls
Ban incarcerated felons from voting
Optical ballots only. No paper punching or electronic machines
Steeply increase penalties for voter fraud, especially if election official
Other things I’d like to see:
Must pass standard test to register to vote (and every 10 years, 2 after 80)
Ballots only in English
Remove dementia patients from rolls
Ban temporary residents from voting locally
Raise age of voting to 25
Some of those things would require amending the constitution.
I don’t trust Dominion machines. But, that is what we have here. The volunteers that work at our local voting district are proud of their fancy new machines. They are such good people, I just bite my lip, and do my best.
Dominion is a professional company that makes good machines. The very fact that its opponents make up such outrageous lies about it is good evidence that they can’t find anything actually wrong with it. But we shouldn’t trust any machine; machines are fine for same-day counting, but all results must be able to be verified afterwards by hand-counting. A sample of machines must be hand-checked, and if any discrepancy is found the whole election must be hand-counted. And that means the original ballots marked by the voters must be preserved, and must be in a form that can be counted by hand.
Pa I am fairly sure uses Dominion
And is often put to Stalin its who counts the votes that matters, and Dominion counts the votes.
It’s a simple addition math problem they made as complicated as possible.
SCOTUS is allowing states to set age verification proof for facebook etc
so this would be a direct relationship to verification of name and INDIVIDUAL for voting which has to be at the least as important ( and imho…MORE IMPORTANT) than who is on social media
which really cant be done in the mail in ballot scheme
Can’t have that, if we get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines, we might have accurate results on Election night nationwide. That would be a totally unreasonable expectation. After all, we used to have that constantly until they started using computers for voting
This is just not true.
This is not true either. The constitution puts the states in charge of holding elections for their senators, representatives, and electors. It does authorize Congress to override state regulations for congressional (but not presidential) elections (except for the location of polling places for senate elections), but that doesn’t make the states anyone’s agents, or deny their primary responsibility. And it doesn’t give the president any role whatsoever.
As usual, Trump makes a point which is essentially correct and valid, but he expresses it with bluster, exaggerations, and outright falsehoods.
(The exception for senate polling places, over which Congress has no say whatsoever, seems weird in our post-17A world. Why would the constitution reserve that decision, out of all others, for the state legislatures? But it makes perfect sense if you consider that until the 17A, senate elections were held by the state legislatures themselves. Congress could still tell them how to conduct those elections, if it wanted to, but it couldn’t dictate to them where they must assemble to vote. That would give it too much control over them.
Now that state legislators are no longer the only voters in senate elections this exception no longer makes any sense, but it’s still there because the authors of the 17A didn’t think it was important to repeal it. There’s no reason a state legislature would ever want to override Congress’s wishes on this one issue, so it’s harmless for them to have that power.)
So if you’re someone like me — An American citizen who happens to reside outside the United States, for work or family reasons, your right to vote is ended because ballots won’t be accepted by mail. I’m properly registered to vote in my last State of residence, and I mail my ballot to a legitimate representative of the State electoral operation. Is it the non-resident voters’ fault if individual States and districts are incompetent at managing the mail-in ballot process? This suggestion is undemocratic and unfair.
I would bet that if they get rid of mail-in balloting (as should be done) they would make it possible for you to submit your ballot to an American consulate for transmission. If not, then that’s just tough. If there is no way for expats to vote then I’m not going to cry. You can take a trip back to vote or go without.
You chose to live outside America. There are lots and lots of disadvantages to that. You have no rights in foreign lands (you ain’t in AMerica anymore) so you could make the same complaints about all of those rights, too. But you know that that would be silly. Our electoral processes should not be totally destroyed just so that you can vote more easily. The world doesn’t revolve around you.
D’s will challenge every bit of this in federal courts.
Probably the biggest obstacle is the fact that elections are run by the States, not the federal government.
Worse, Trump is trying to do this by EO rather than by federal law. Can’t get to 60 votes in the Senate on anything at all right now. D’s are blocking everything, and given that the future of their Party depends on voter fraud, they’ll dig in on this issue regardless.
One big thing in Trump’s favor is that pesky antiquated US Constitution that D’s are always trying to abolish. Seems there’s a provision in there that specifies that the Tuesday after the first Monday in November is when elections take place. Not weeks and months prior by means of early and mail in voting. Obviously not helpful on the issue of voting machines, but certainly useful in abolishing mail-in and early voting.
No there isn’t.
Not true at all.
Trump is right. We’ve all seen too many cases of ballot box stuffing and it burns me up. Good move. Keep’em coming Mr. President.
As a 70 year old who has voted since I was 18, I disagree with Trump on this. I live in Florida now and I started voting by mail maybe 10 years ago. I request a mail in ballot and its sent to me. When I receive it, I research the different candidates and propositions on the ballot. I will fill in the ballot, stick it in the enclosed envelopes (plural) and return it to the county. I get a notice when it’s been received. It’s a paper ballot, but is counted by machine. When I used to vote in person, I really wasn’t aware of the different propositions or local candidates and really didn’t make informed decisions. My fault but I am not unusual. I am aware that states do this differently, but I believe the Florida system is good and other states should take lessons from them. Florida is also one of the first states to report and we’re not waiting days for the votes to be counted.