On Putin’s advice, Trump launches assault on mail-in ballots and voting machines

President Trump said on Monday that he would renew his assault against postal vote after Russia’s autocratic chief Vladimir Putin told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.

The president provided few details, but wrote on social networks that he “would lead a movement to get rid of the sending bulletins, and also, although we are, very” inaccurate, very expensive and very controversial. »»

Already in March, Trump had issued an executive decree ordering the Ministry of Justice to “take all the necessary measures” to prevent the shipping bulletins received after the election day. The order also attempted to impose proof of citizenship obligation for the registration of voters.

The parties of executive action were prohibited by the courts for constitutional concerns. But another provision, ordering the Independent Committee for Aid in the US elections to move its directives on voting machines, prohibiting the use of certain bar codes and rapid response codes, has been authorized to proceed.

The American constitution stipulates that the calendar, the place and the manner of the elections “will be prescribed in each state” by local legislatures and that the congress has the capacity to adopt laws amending the electoral regulations of the State. The president does not have the power to prescribe or govern electoral procedures.

Nevertheless, Trump wrote on Monday that states “are just a” agent “for the federal government to count and tabulate votes.

“They must do what the federal government, represented by the President of the United States,” said, so that the good of our country does it, “he wrote.

Trump’s action occurs in the heels of his meeting with Putin in Anchorage, where the Russian chief told him that the ballot sent by post had led to his electoral defeat in 2020, according to the president.

The US intelligence community assessed Putin tried to influence the last three American presidential elections in favor of Trump.

Trump blamed his electoral defeat in 2020 to President Biden to conspire electoral fraud. But the independent analysts, the state -of -the -art prosecutors and each court who examined the case found no evidence of fraud that changed the results of the race.

“Vladimir Putin said something – one of the most interesting things. He said,” Your election was faked because you have a vote by mail, “Trump told Fox News in an interview.

Trump has criticized the vote sent by post since its entry into politics in 2015. But his presidential campaign adopted the practice leading to the 2024 elections, encouraging his supporters – in particular those affected by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina – to take advantage of the voting opportunities by mail.

“The vote of the absent, the anticipated vote and the vote of the public election are all good options,” said Trump at the time. “Republicans must make a plan, register and vote!”

But Monday, Trump wrote that voting machines “cost precise and sophisticated watermark paper ten times more than faster, and leaves no doubt, at the end of the evening, who won and who lost the election”.

“With their horrible radical policies, such as open borders, men playing in female sports, transgender and” alarm clock “for everyone, and much more, Democrats are practically without electable without using this completely refuted scam,” wrote Trump.

“Me and the republican party, I will fight like a hell to bring honesty and integrity to our elections,” he added. “The hoax by mail by post, using voting machines which are a complete and total disaster, must end, now !!!”

Trump said he would take additional executive measures before the mid-term elections in 2026, but had provided no details on the calendar.

Yesterday, in the oval office for a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said that his lawyers were currently writing a prescription. “It is time for Republicans to become difficult and stop it,” he said.

“Postal bulletins are corrupt. You can never have a real democracy with voting bulletins by mail. And we, as a republican party, are going to do everything possible to put an end to the postal bulletins,” said Trump. “They are corrupt.”