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I looked over this EO, and it's not surprising but is disappointing how this is being called "Trump bans mail-in voting!!!" when it very much does not.
Beyond the fact that it's 100% unconstitutional (Article ONE, Section 4, friends), it demands the creation of lists and lists and lists and USPS managing some lists and all that within 90 days of a Federal election, then everyone gets their mail-in ballot mailed to them at their address of record so they can mail it back. Which is hilarious - what aged Boomer retirement homes full of GOP voters are going to be this organized?
It's stupid^stupid^ but all it really tries to prevent people from going to get a last-minute mail in ballot. So if you don't know where you'll be 90 days before the election, you're going in person or not voting at all - IF your state follows this clearly not legal EO. So some hard-red states with nothing to lose will do this and absorb the fallout and then quietly ignore this once it gets problematic, while swing states will likely have voting rights activists that help people do this 90 days early.
This follows some of the stickier GOP conspiracies about boxes of mail-in ballots showing up during the counting process in places they lost and have feels about. So this is MAGA theater at best, just like the EO that undoes the 14th Amendment. Courts can invalidate this easily.
That's the point.
They're trying to weaponize lack of funding and incompetence.
If they haven't figures out how to weaponize incompetence yet, then they're....in....fuck then they're incompetent at that, too. Jesus Fucking Christ.
It's bad out here, pieeeemp