silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoTrump Signs Order Calling for Citizenship Proof to Vote in Federal Electionswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up60arrow-down1·7 days agoThe Federal government doesn’t control how people vote in states. Good luck with that bullshit.
minus-squareArbiter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40arrow-down1·7 days agoRed states are going to bend over backwards for daddy Trump to fuck them with this.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 days agoIt doesn’t matter. They are the minority, especially by government.
minus-squareUltraMagnus0001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoThere are more red states than electorals I think.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·edit-27 days agoThey are not a minority in an electoral college sense, and that is an intentional aspect of the electoral college.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoElectoral college has nothing to do with how states conduct their own elections the federal gets no say in that.
minus-squareVenus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·7 days ago“Obey!” “No.” “Obey or we’ll cut funding for xyz!” “Okidoki :3” It’s not hard to predict at this point and so far it’s been mostly effective. I know it’s daunting but you can’t rely on checks and balances to get the US out of this mess.
minus-squareSixty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 days agoScenario: Trump throws out any votes they deem “invalid.”
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoStates decide the vote tally
The Federal government doesn’t control how people vote in states. Good luck with that bullshit.
Red states are going to bend over backwards for daddy Trump to fuck them with this.
It doesn’t matter. They are the minority, especially by government.
There are more red states than electorals I think.
They are not a minority in an electoral college sense, and that is an intentional aspect of the electoral college.
Electoral college has nothing to do with how states conduct their own elections the federal gets no say in that.
“Obey!”
“No.”
“Obey or we’ll cut funding for xyz!”
“Okidoki :3”
It’s not hard to predict at this point and so far it’s been mostly effective. I know it’s daunting but you can’t rely on checks and balances to get the US out of this mess.
Scenario: Trump throws out any votes they deem “invalid.”
States decide the vote tally