A fixed idea expressed in capital letters. In a long publication on the Truth Social platform, embellished with capital letters as it is used, Donald Trump announced on Monday that it would lead to a movement to get rid of correspondence vote, a method widely used in the United States that it regularly accuses of causing massive, baseless electoral fraud.
In addition, the American president assured that his will would be challenged by the Democrats because, according to him, they “cheat at levels never seen before”.
Electoral machines in the viewfinder
Donald Trump, who has never recognized the result of the election of 2020, also wants to tackle the electoral machines which he describes as “imprecise, very expensive, and highly controversial, which cost ten times more than watermark, precise and sophisticated, which is faster and who leaves no doubt at the end of the evening which has won and who lost the election”.
The republican billionaire announced that he would sign a decree to “help bring honesty in the mid-term elections”, in November 2026, without giving details on the content of the text.
In an interview given Friday after his meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, he also said that the Russian leader had told him to be of the same opinion as him on the voting by correspondence. “” He said to me: “No country has the voting by correspondence. It is impossible to have voting by correspondence and honest elections”, said Donald Trump to presenter Sean Hannity of Fox News.
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail order voting. All the others abandoned it because of the massive electoral fraud encountered, ”he wrote. This is false, since many countries, especially European, use correspondence voting for all types of elections.
A decree at the end of March
Donald Trump had already signed a decree at the end of March to restrict the voting by correspondence and impose reinforced controls on the US states on the electoral lists. However, in the United States, the organization of the elections is of the prerogative of the States, while the Congress sets up a certain framework.
“As a reminder, states are simply an agent for the federal state in the counting and calculating votes. They must do what the federal state, represented by the President of the United States, tells them to do, for the good of our country, “supports the American president, however.
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Experts had estimated that the March decree represented an abuse of presidential prerogatives. The professor of electoral law Rick Hasen, of the University of California in Los Angeles, had called him as “coup de force of the executive” and associations had announced to challenge him in court.
