Key Highlights
- The bill would impose a national photo identification requirement to vote, in addition to requiring proof of citizenship to register and drastically limiting mail-in voting.“There will be Voter I. D.
- for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” Trump posted in one of a series of missives sent while onboard Air Force One on Friday afternoon after speaking to troops at Fort Bragg. Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East in effort to increase pressure on IranRead more“Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel,” the president added, falsely, since there is no popular majority for banning vote by mail. In fact, polling conducted last year showed the exact opposite: 58% of Americans favor allowing any voter to cast their ballot by mail if they want to. Trump’s efforts to impose voter ID requirements are likely to face immediate legal challenges, as the US constitution leaves the conduct of elections to the states. The president, however, claimed to have an unspecified legal argument that would allow the federal government to take unprecedented control of elections run by the states.
- But in a second post during his flight to his Palm Beach resort, he offered more hyperbole than facts, in a long diatribe punctuated with all-caps words.“We cannot let the Democrats get away with NO VOTER I. D.
- any longer.
- These are horrible, disingenuous CHEATERS,” Trump wrote.“If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted.
