Donald Trump announced on Monday, August 18 that he would lead “a movement to get rid of correspondence vote”, thus returning to one of his main fixed ideas, when he has never recognized his defeat in the presidential elections of 2020.
“I will lead a movement to get rid of the vote by correspondence, and although we are there, also electoral machines, ‘inaccurate’, very expensive and highly controversial, which cost ten times more than the role of a watermark, precise and sophisticated, which is faster and leaves no doubt at the end of the night he has won and who lost the social elections,” the social truth.
The Republican billionaire announced that he would sign a decree to “help bring honesty in the mid -period elections”, in November 2026, without giving details about the content of the text.
Democrats “cheat the levels never seen before”
Donald Trump has never recognized his defeat for the 2020 presidential elections against Joe Biden and denounced mass electoral fraud, especially in the correspondence vote, a method widely used in the United States.
He predicted on Monday that his desire to abolish the correspondence vote would be challenged by the Democrats because, according to him, they deceive the levels never before. “
The Republican had already signed a decree at the end of March to restrict the correspondence vote and impose on US states reinforced controls on electoral lists.
During his summit in Alaska, on Friday, August 15, with Vladimir Putin to find an exit in the war in Ukraine, which was not successful, the US president explained that he spoke the problem with his Russian counterpart. “Vladimir Putin told me something, one of the most interesting things, he said: ‘The elections were falsified because you have the correspondence vote,” said Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News.
“He told me: ‘No country uses a request by mail, it is impossible (using it) and having fair choices,” he added.
In the United States, the organization of elections is the prerogative of the states, while Congress establishes a certain framework.
But Donald Trump questions this idea and, according to him, the authority of the federal state has priority over that of the states.
“As a reminder, the states are simply an ‘agent’ for the federal state in the count and calculation of the votes. They must do what the federal state, represented by the president of the United States, tells them to do, for the sake of our country,” he argued on Monday.
Experts had estimated that the March decree represented an abuse of presidential prerogatives. The electoral law professor Rick Hasen, from the University of California in Los Angeles, had called him “an executive’s coup” and the associations had announced that they challenged him in the Court.
Source: BFM TV
