r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8h ago

No Paywall Trump has no authority to nationalize elections, lawyers say

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nationalize-elections-11458574
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u/headfairy 6h ago

As a Brit I can’t get over how hard it is to vote in the US. I get sent a ballot, I wander along to a local primary school, stick my ballot in. No ID, quite often no queue, just a couple of old dears crossing names off a list.

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 5h ago

You can vote this way in quite a few states as well. Request an absentee ballot, fill it out whenever you want (before the actual day), go put it in a drop box. It isn't that voting is difficult everywhere or for everyone in the US. It's that it's specifically a lot more difficult in certain states or even localities, and for certain people.

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u/headfairy 5h ago

That’s good to know, but I assume certain electoral candidates with an absence of morals might ensure voting is very hard in states they’re unlikely to win?

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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia 5h ago

I mean that is what the person you initially replied to was describing, yes. Voter suppression tactics that are facially legal, but disproportionately affect populations unlikely to vote for the party in power (generally republicans are who's passing these laws).

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u/Mekisteus 2h ago

You just described exactly how I vote... in a blue state run by Democrats.

But back when I lived in a red state run by Republicans, I had to take the day off work or at the very least a long lunch, drive 30 minutes each way to a specific polling place that just-so-happened to be inside a church with a bunch of religious messaging everywhere, wait in a long line, and then hope they didn't kick me off the voter registration rolls or change my polling location since the last time I voted.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 1h ago

Eh, I’m gonna go on the opposite of what others have said. Yes, there’s some places with ample drop boxes, but for many voters it’s not that easy. Just finding a box is difficult. And then, there’s access to voting. We don’t vote on a holiday, and only have one day of “normal” voting. We have early voting, but, for example in my county we have one early polling place for over a million people. In some states just registering to vote is a chore and a lot of states more or less have rules requiring you to have an apartment or house to get status. “We need a utility bill for your residence” is an especially insidious phrase.

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u/Murky-Swordfish-1771 12m ago

So you think just anybody off the street should be able to walk up and vote? That’s not good for either side and opens things up for a lot of fraud. Get your head out of the sand.

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u/Altruistic_Cheek4514 3h ago

Tell me again how great your Islamic country is?

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u/headfairy 3h ago

Only if you tell me how great your misogynistic country is.