There’s no legal theory supporting presidential intervention in state election decisions, so Trump may just be preparing to challenge adverse results
Trump threatens two battleground states to not let voters vote by mail. Photo: Shutterstock The president’s bizarre mid-pandemic campaign against voting by mail is reaching a new level of weirdness.
But now Trump has upped the ante in two tweets threatening withdrawal of federal funds from states expanding voting by mail: All Benson is doing is providing some uniformity by sending voting-by-mail applications — not ballots, as Trump claims, but just applications — to registered voters. It’s hard to fathom why Trump calls this “illegal” or “without authorization,” and what business he has interpreting Michigan election law in the first place.
On [April 30], a federal judge denied a request by True the Vote to block a Nevada plan to send absentee ballots to all active voters for the state’s June 9 primary. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du dismissed as “speculative” and “without any factual basis” the group’s claim that the plan would expose the election to fraud and thereby dilute the votes of legitimate voters.
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