Trump wants to GOP nationalize elections and control the vote count: that's what fascists and communist dictators do.
Trump urges Republicans to 'take over' and 'nationalize' voting - ABC News
Trump wants the GOP to take over the vote in blue states. It is very difficult for a dictator to control the vote when there are 51 different states and the District of Columbia. He tried something like that in 2020. His minions asked all local clerks to secure the voting and tabulating machines. One clerk in Colorado took the orders seriously, gave access codes to a Trump-loyal volunteer, and locked away the machinery. Tina Peters has become the poster child of the violation of state laws and rules to protect faith by the public in fair and free elections. The voter system, laws, and rules were set up by a Republican administration in Colorado years ago. Peters still sits in a state jail after conviction. Now Trump wants the GOP to become Tina Peters.
Trump's false pretense of such dirty tricks is that the 2020 election was stolen because all of those illegals voted and mail-in votes are all a fraud, their propagandists and a delusional Trump claim. In over 6 years, over 60 court decisions, such attempts to prove these claims have failed.
Trumpists must think that if they can get voters' personal information, they can prove their pretext, the Constitution provisions delegating election controls to states be hanged. That strategy has met some speed bumps as many Secretaries of State have put up a vigorous pushback. There are methods in Trump's madness because controlling access to the details of voters also gives the holderthe ability to target voter suppression techniques to specific voters and voter blocks. The DOJ has demanded Colorado’s and more than 19 other states'voter rolls information, including driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of voters’ Social Security numbers, and is attempting to change the post office delivery terms for mail-in ballots so they are counted by local officials. There may be hope as a federal judge blocked the DOJ request for Oregon on 1/27/26. Federal judge blocks Trump DOJ access to Oregon voter rolls Trump Administration Has Sued More than 20 States for Refusing to Turn Over Voter Files | Brennan Center for Justice
In six years, no evidence has emerged that had evidence of that or that the 2020 vote was stolen. Of course, the election in 2024 must have had all the integrity in the world when Trump won, and MAGA did, too, up and down the ballots. That pretext to seize ballots has not died, and just last week it was once again dredged up. This Trumpian raid and the snatching of Georgia 2020 ballots smells like a pretext to keep the House in GOP hands by throwing the 2026 midterms into chaos. This could explain the strange raid last week and the presence of national security officials trying to reinvent that one state election to concoct a pretext for federal takeover of the vote in selected blue states.. If Trump and his administration can't win one way (the predictions are he will lose control of the House), they will find another way, and this one is ugly.
There are suspicions, rumors, and theories circulating that Trump wants to call in the National Guard to "secure" the machines. He advocated that in his first term. Even more disquieting is the fear that he will use his personal paramilitary militia, ICE, to use the pretext that illegal migrants are voting. Of course, the election in 2024 must have had all the integrity in the world when Trump won, and MAGA did, too, up and down the ballots.
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