First let me say I am not dooming. POTUS doesn't have the authority to ban or require any method of voting. At all. Elections are run by the states. They could say they want to use a mule to carry ballots from a machine to the scanner and only CONgress could stop that - but they would have to create a law.
The only way Trump can do this is to get the people to pressure CONgress 24/7/365 to outlaw mail-ins and machines and require paper ballots and one-day voting. We the people might be able to get a vote, but with all the compromised members of CONgress that have been in office since Pontius was a trainee pilot, they will never vote for the one way we can get them out of office.
I wish he could do it himself with an executive order, but that wouldn't work either because they are for the executive branch and their regulatory mission - not everyone else.
The only other way for that to happen is if we end up in a Constitutional Convention of the States - an amendment. But - much like Q said about FISA - it goes both ways. Dems could do all sorts of gun laws, make abortion legal at the federal level, or whatever else the demons want.
Article I section 4:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
So it is the states, except to the extent that Congress (not the president!) gets involved.
First let me say I am not dooming. POTUS doesn't have the authority to ban or require any method of voting. At all. Elections are run by the states. They could say they want to use a mule to carry ballots from a machine to the scanner and only CONgress could stop that - but they would have to create a law.
The only way Trump can do this is to get the people to pressure CONgress 24/7/365 to outlaw mail-ins and machines and require paper ballots and one-day voting. We the people might be able to get a vote, but with all the compromised members of CONgress that have been in office since Pontius was a trainee pilot, they will never vote for the one way we can get them out of office.
I wish he could do it himself with an executive order, but that wouldn't work either because they are for the executive branch and their regulatory mission - not everyone else.
The only other way for that to happen is if we end up in a Constitutional Convention of the States - an amendment. But - much like Q said about FISA - it goes both ways. Dems could do all sorts of gun laws, make abortion legal at the federal level, or whatever else the demons want.
Even in Federal elections? I thought I read somewhere that rules for Federal elections are made by the Federal gov.
Article I section 4: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
So it is the states, except to the extent that Congress (not the president!) gets involved.