With Trump Government attacks on the spirit and letters of the U.S. Constitution Various frontPresident Donald Trump has also become increasingly vocal and aggressive in his plans to manage the U.S. elections.
Federal and state nearly ten years later Invest in Election Security and Integrity ProgramResearchers and election officials work on the ground across the country U.S. election infrastructure As strong and transparent as ever. In the parade Executive Order But, subsequent comments on social media, Trump promoted an unfounded dissatisfaction that the U.S. election infrastructure was outdated and unreliable and required federal intervention.
Trump’s administration has Cut A large part of the federal government’s election security efforts and has installed officials in the Department of Homeland Security who deny the effectiveness of Trump’s presidential losses in 2020. Recently, election conspiracy theory sponsor Heather Honey was appointed deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security In late August.
“Remember, states are just ‘agents’ of the federal government when calculating and making tabs,” Trump Write About the truth about last month’s social. “They have to tell them as the federal government represented by the U.S. president.”
Non-partisan election experts stressed that this is a totally inaccurate and misleading explanation for the person The United States Constitution and the decentralized, state-controlled election model it describes.
“It’s been there in the Constitution from the very beginning, and the state sets the time, place and way to elect. States hold elections; Congress can add rules, but the president has no role,” said Lawrence Norden, vice president of elections and government programs at the Law School of Law at the Brennan new York University Center, the Law School of Law at the New York University Center. “Trump made all these statements that he was going to end the mail voting, the voting machine could not be trusted, but he couldn’t do that. But he certainly had a bully podium to mislead and confuse the public and to make the public feel scared.”
Pamela Smith, president of Verified Voting by nonpartisan nonprofits that promote the integrity of the electoral system, stressed that it is difficult to unravel the concerns caused by administration and disbandment of the government from inherently inappropriate use of the president as a tool to try to decide on election requirements. “It’s hard to talk about all of this when the context is completely wrong,” Smith said. “It doesn’t depend on what the White House says about the Election Aid Commission, ‘You should change the way voting machines are certified and deprived.'”
Ben Adida, executive director of the voting factory of the nonprofit open source voting equipment manufacturer, noted that it is a good thing to encourage state and local officials to prioritize aging voting machines so that they can adhere to current best practices and standards. He said it was a “positive development” of the Executive Order in March, although he also noted: “The timing of the recommendations in the Executive Order is too tight to be realistic.”
