Trump continues to eat on the electoral system with the aim of favoring the Republicans

In mid -July, one Jeff Small reported to various election officials in the US state of Colorado. He said he was working on a Trump government project and asked if they wanted to give federal officials access to the voting engines to see if there were no ‘gaps’ in it. The local Denver Post Heard of ten employees in different constituencies the same story – and the same answer: no, they could not allow that. Giving unauthorized persons access to voting machines and the data of voters in it is punishable; The chairman of the polling station in Mesa County, Colorado, is a prison sentence of nine years because she did.

The local newspaper cited Lori Mitchell, County Clerk In Chaffee County, in the Rocky Mountains. Small “said things like” the clerk In El Paso County there is already agreement, so give me access’. ” Mitchell put Small’s activities in a broader context: “They don’t stop. They continue to eat on the ‘blue’ states [met een Democratische meerderheid]only on blue states. ”

The ‘she’ in her quote are the Republicans. And ‘keeping eating’ is a nice description of what has not only been seen in Colorado in recent weeks, but throughout the US. Eaten on the electoral system.

The White House has denied that Small worked on the authority of the government. He “was never authorized to perform official work on behalf of the White House,” a spokesperson emailed to Omroep CNN. Small’s lawyer wrote that his client “in his spare time” helped to encourage local “election officers to cooperate with the president’s decrees.”

The first decree that comes in mind is the decree that Trump On March 25 signed. In it he gives the Ministry of Interior Security an important role in the election process, in particular for checking the electoral registers. That decree is at odds with the Constitution, in which the elections are explicitly referred to as the task of the individual states, with a supervisory role for the national representation of the people – not for the president or his ministers.

The day after Trump took office, speculating about the future of democracy, with the key question: were these the last free elections of the US? That dramatic question was asked with a view to the flood of decrees that the president issued on his first day. But also with his stubborn refusal to recognize the 2020 election results when he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump made all judges suspected of wiping his unfounded allegations off the table, and eventually conducted his supporters to the Capitol, where they wanted to prevent the reinforcement of Bidens victory with a rush.

In addition, add his flirtation with a third presidential period, contrary to the constitution, the nervousness among his political opponents is already understandable. Would Trump cut the democracy aside and let himself crown himself president, such as Putin or XI?

The developments of the last few weeks suggest that a different, creeping route will be taken to omnipotence for the president and his party. Three paths are being followed at the same time.

1
Partial electoral cards

The proven means of partially drawn maps for the constituencies, to the ‘inventor’ ranging named. At the end of last month, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives in Texas presented a new district card that could just give the Republicans five extra seats in the rural house.

Trump makes no effort to hide that he encourages this unfair favor of the Republicans. “We are entitled to five extra seats,” he said against Omroep CNBC. The relationships in Texas are already crooked by the current, also drawn district boundaries. Of the 38 seats that Texas has in the house, 25 are covered by a Republican, or 66 percent, while the party received 56 percent of the votes last year.

The Washington Post This week it wrote that the Republicans want to sign new electoral cards in their favor in at least four other states. And that the White House actively encourages them. A Republican strategist in Missouri said that this is “top priority at the highest level of the White House.” Vice -president JD Vance went to Indiana to talk about redesigning the card.

2
Census

On Thursday, the president wrote on Truth Social that he has instructed the responsible ministry to change the constitutionally compulsory census. Only citizens and people with valid residence papers can be included from him. Seems logical, but is debatable. The Constitution states that everyone who lives in the US must be included. The results of the census are used for the distribution of the seat number that each of the 50 states is allocated – and are therefore crucial for the political representation of citizens.

Singh’s conclusion is ominous: the president “conducts, dismantles and guardes” government services as he took place

By proposing this clause (for a census that will apply from 2030), Trump disadvantages the states that have a lenient attitude towards (labor) migrants, in particular states in the (southern) west of the US, where a lot of work is done by workers from Central America. In those states, with the exception of Arizona, the Democrats now have comfortable majorities

This means that after 2030 the seat distribution could be drastically tilted in favor of states with a majority of republican administration.

3
Justice as a political weapon

Trump has forged the Ministry of Justice into a political weapon – a reproach that he made his opponents when he was not a president. This weapon is also focused on the electoral system. The ministerial department that is about elections is led by an activist from a conservative organization that was involved in tightening lawsuits against officials who did not aggressively purify the electoral registers. In practice, this mainly excludes poor, and in the majority of non-white voters from the right to vote.

With his presidential decrees, Trump has intimidated law firms who claimed litigations against his unfounded attempts to claim the election profit in 2020. Four of the offices have successfully resisted the judge so far. Nine other offices have admitted to Trump and do for many millions of free legal work for goals he has designated. Of those decrees, and especially of the capitulation of such large, rich offices, a “daunting effect,” writes Jasleen Singh of the progressive think tank Brennan Center for Justice This week in an article. The result is that for Americans who feel limited in their voting rights, it becomes more difficult to find a lawyer to fight for them.

Singh’s conclusion is ominous: the president “conducts, dismantles and monitors” government services as he sees in view of future elections. Elections will be held in 2026 (for the congress) and in 2028 (for the presidency and congress). But they go according to rules made by and exclusively for the benefit of the Republican Party. The man who called the elections in both 2016 and 2020 rigged Were, forged, is now the standard bearer of a large -scale operation for manipulating the American elections.

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