The Long Fight Over Ballots
There’s nothing that cuts closer to the heart of democracy than how votes are cast and counted. President Donald Trump announced that he’ll be signing an executive order to strengthen all U.S. elections, from requiring voter ID to the elimination of mail-in ballots. On Truth Social, Trump broke it down.
Voter ID. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military.
The right has made the same point about requiring ID for many transactions: picking up some prescriptions, buying alcohol, driving, flying, opening a bank account, or picking up a baseball ticket at will call. Yet for the most sacred act of U.S. citizenship, casting a ballot, some states pretend that asking for that identical safeguard is an open act of tyranny.
President Trump called their bluff by fulfilling a promise to voters demanding election security, reminding everybody that elections belong to the people, not political machines.
Anticipating the Activists
The ink on the order will hardly be dry before judicial activists spring into action, running their predictable playbook: Federal judges in deep-blue circuits, on speed dial, will rush to freeze the order, citing whatever tortured constitutional reading is fashionable.
These same people remain silent when government regulations strangle small businesses, or scream when dictating vaccine mandates. Yet suddenly, a passion for freedom grows out of nowhere to protect the right to cast a ballot without showing an ID.
Remember how many Trump policies ran into a gavel during his first term? Travel bans, border walls, energy leases: each was immediately tied up in legal knots by courts more interested in moving an ideology forward than in the law. This executive order will be no different except that the stakes are higher because what’s at risk isn’t just policy but the legitimacy of every election moving forward.
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Author: Ruth King
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