Donald Trump announced on Monday August 18, that he would lead “A movement to get rid of the voting by correspondence”returning to one of his main fixed ideas, when he has never recognized his defeat for the presidential election of 2020.
“I will lead a movement to get rid of the voting by correspondence, and while we are there, also electoral,” imprecise “, very expensive, and highly controversial machines, which cost ten times more than watermark paper, precise and sophisticated, which is faster and which leaves no doubt at the end of the evening on which won and who lost the election”wrote the American president on his social social platform.
The republican billionaire announced that he would sign a decree for “Help bring honesty in the mid-term elections”in November 2026, without giving details on the content of the text.
Denunciations of baseless electoral fraud
Donald Trump has never recognized his 2020 presidential defeat against Joe Biden and denounced massive electoral fraud, especially in correspondence voting-a widely used method in the United States. He predicted Monday that his desire to abolish the voting by correspondence would be challenged by the Democrats because, according to him, they “Cheat at levels never seen before”.
In an interview given on Friday August 15 after the president of the President of the United States in Alaska with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the 79-year-old Republican, also said that the Russian leader had told him to be of the same opinion as him on the voting by correspondence. “You know, Vladimir Putin told me something, one of the most interesting things”Donald Trump told presenter Sean Hannity, from Fox News. “He said to me,” Your election was faked because of the voting by correspondence “”said the American president. “He said to me:” No country has the voting by correspondence. It is impossible to have voting by correspondence and honest elections “”he added.
Donald Trump resumed these allegations on Monday on Monday. “We are now the only country in the world that uses mail order voting. All the others abandoned it because of the massive electoral frauds encountered ”he wrote.
A false affirmation, since many countries, especially European, use correspondence voting for all types of elections.
A prerogative of states
The Republican had already signed a decree at the end of March to restrict the voting by correspondence and to impose reinforced controls on the electoral lists on the States.
In the United States, the organization of the elections is of the prerogative of the States, while the Congress sets up a certain framework. But Donald Trump questions this idea and according to him, the authority of the federal state must take precedence over that of the States. “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 ”he argued on Monday.
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 thus qualified him as “Coup de force of the executive” And associations had announced to challenge him in court.
