Trump threatens to withhold Michigan funding over mail-in voting

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal funding to Michigan after the state's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) announced all of the state’s registered voters would receive applications for absentee ballots in the mail this year.

Trump charged that the step was done “illegally” and threatened to withhold funding if the state did not reverse course, suggesting the move would encourage voter fraud.

“Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. “This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/498689-trump-threatens-to-withhold-michigan-funding-over-mail-in-voting

[Freedomofspeech]

1. But if was okay for him to vote by mail in Florida?

[olegramps]

9. The Republican Party is the enemy of the Republic.

The party must be destroyed completely. Everything must be done to regain the Senate and Whitehouse and begin investigations and hold them accountable for their destructive attack on the most basic right of the people: Unrestricted Voting Rights. The Democrats have to take decisive action and no longer tolerate this anti-democracy party. The Republican Party has become an evil blight that must be demolished.

I only wish we had more outspoken representatives who have the backbone to stand up and call Trump a damn liar. We need Democrat representative to go on national media and challenge Trump and his bootlicking henchmen. The time is past for hand wringing and polite politically correct responses. This nation is in serious jeopardy. What will it take to wakeup the people to the fact that the hierarchy of Republican Party is the enemy and is determined to establish a dictatorship with an alliance with the wealthy plutocrats. The are employing every fascist tactic to achieve their goal while far too many of our representatives don't have the balls to denounce them.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. x 1000! Spot on.

[Walleye]

2. Democracy just scares the shit out of him.

[Canoe52]

24. I don't think he even understands the concept.

[Walleye]

29. Correct!

[BeyondGeography]

3. And here I thought he liked rogue Secretarys of State

[C_U_L8R]

4. If Republicans don't like it, they're free to not vote.

[OrlandoDem2]

5. I can't imagine this will go over well in MI.

The man is extorting Michiganders.

He is endangering their health.

Doesn’t the GOP always say voting is a state issue? I guess not when it threatens their political fortune. That makes Republicans hypocrites.

[Stuart G]

6. Well, if Michigan is a ......."swing state"...guess what? It just swung to Democrats..

His mouth doesn't know what to say...Does it?

[AllaN01Bear]

7. quit messing with the right to vote u prick

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ive been voting by mail since i moved to my apartment 15 years ago. half of the county where i live votes by mail.

[Grokenstein]

25. Prezidunce Potatohead: "It's the only way I can win!"

[jpak]

8. But but but Susan Collins said he learned his lesson

She wouldn't lie would she?

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Susan is so dim. Typically party-line. Schiff laid out who Don the Con is in his closing impeach

ment statement. And he will never change.

[The_Counsel]

27. Doesn't Matter. BOTH Will Get a Boot in the Butt Come 11/3/20...

...if voters do the right thing.

MAN, will it be glorious! But we gotta do our part.

[samsingh]

10. trump is threatening states again.

like a foreign dictator would?

[Maeve]

11. He is wrong--it's not ballots, but APPLICATIONS for ballots

And there is nothing illegal about it; Ohio has done so in the past, as well.

[ArizonaLib]

12. I am sure it isn't mail in voting that is fraudulent - it's the voting machines

These republicans love the digital voting machines. Recount? Click the 'recount' icon on the Diebold machine so that it spits out the same calculation.

Recounting paper ballots mailed in with real signatures is an entirely different thing. It's called democracy.

[Jarqui]

13. Michigan voting machines ...

https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1633_8716_45458---,00.html

some are new
they're from HART INTERCIVIC, Dominion and ES&S

Hard to find out who controls them
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/who-s-behind-voting-machine-makers-money-of-unclear-origins-1.4505856?cache=yes%3FclipId%3D89530

I think there were earlier reports that Ivanka or her siblings were involved with voting machines - China granted her a trademark for them or something.

Maybe not using these machines is what is upsetting Trump because it makes it harder for them to steal Michigan. .... ??

[nwduke]

14. But it's safe to receive your...

Passport, drivers license, tax refund checks, credit card statements etc, etc, via the mail, but voting, not a chance, tooo much fraud!🤪🤪🤪

[slumcamper]

15. Iowa Republican Sec. of State Paul Pate sent applications to all registered IA voters weeks ago...

and crickets.

? ? ? ? ? ? ?

[machoneman]

17. It's ok for Republican run state, eh?

If anything, this MI move may drive more states to do the same and skip the rigged voting machines. NC is a great test case yet the R-Scum dominated state may stymie any mail-in vote.

[duforsure]

16. By trump threatening this

He's driving many more people away from him and the Republican Party. His threats are also escalating now. If he loses the election, which he will, expect him to stop using the fed to prop up the markets , and hurt the markets intentionally claiming its because Democrats got voted into power is the reason, which everyone knows is another lie from trump. He will use his powers to hurt us all for his loss any way he can, even his supporters. Just like with this virus, he cares nothing about people dying, and it's only about himself, and winning and money.

[turbinetree]

18. Okay, does this asshole have a driver's license to register to vote in Florida

and did he do the following: Which I think he has not done.................

THE BASICS
Florida permits no-excuse absentee voting and early voting.
Florida provides for online voter registration.
Voters in Florida must present both photo and signature identification at the poll

these are the fucking rules, did shit for brains do the following............if not, he cannot vote in Florida and he cannot use a fucking black sharpie..................he has to shown up to do the following:


https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_in_Florida


I and millions of other are demand to see his weigh a ton fat ass go and register like everyone else........he is not above the law........................

[Rebl2]

20. One of the

most conservative states, Kansas, allows mail in voting. I live in Missouri and we can vote absentee ballot, but there are restrictions, like you will be out of town or having surgery the day of election.

[CrispyQ]

22. We've been voting by mail in CO for a few elections, now.

My county has a text/phone alert system you can sign up for. They text you when they mail your ballot so you know it's on the way, and they text you when they receive it back at the Clerk's office. You can mail your ballot, or you can drop it off at any County Clerk's office and we have ballot drop off boxes at places like the Public Library. Voter signatures are on file and you have to sign your ballot envelope. We can also register to vote online at at the DMV.

Who the hell votes for people who want to make voting more difficult? I'll tell you who. People who don't really believe in representative government. IOW, republicans.

[raccoon]

23. The Dotard should be impeached and then removed for that.

Isn’t MIchigan one of the swing states?

[ScratchCat]

26. He is just setting up

The notion that he didn't lose when he loses in November. You can see it all coming a mile away. He will have to be dragged from the White House. The problem is, he'll find one Red State governor who wont allow the SS to certify the vote.

Country's over folks. Bet on it. He's not making this nonsense argument to slink back to private life with potential indictments hanging over his head. He is dead set on refusing to leave over this fake "fraud" argument. I used to laugh at this notion. Now I am 100% certain its what he will do when he loses and McConnell will stand there with his deer in the headlights look and act like nothing is wrong.

[Nancy Waterman]

33. This is exactly my thought

He is setting things up so he can claim voter fraud when he loses in November. The Dems better be prepared for him fighting as dirty as he can get away with.

[EndlessWire]

34. I agree. n/t

[Bayard]

28. Don't states decide how to run their own voting?

Nothing illegal about it.

[Kaleva]

30. Yes, states decide how to run their own voting. Trump is blowing smoke.

[PaulRevere08]

31. Whoa!!! tRump really made a mistake here. He is going to hear it from the conservative

"state's rights" crowd now.


Nah just kidding. Right-wingers must be exhausted trying to keep up with all the "bedrock values" they keep flipping on.

[Brainfodder]

32. So what's it going to take to piss off everyone not in his bubble enough to rush WTF he is?

....and end his reign of never ending extremely obviously corrupt stupid shitshow of weirdo terror the GOP is going along with to stay in power?

...and after him.... Moscow Mitch!

...and after him..... The list is very very long at this point?

[greenjar_01]

35. The Hill is a Trump campaign organ

You know that, though.

Of course, Trump cannot actually withhold anything on this basis, but that's not the point. He's actually signaling that Michigan's vote will be "illegitimate" in his view, rigged. In other words, even Griftmaster General Parscuale has told Trump that Michigan is lost for good, ain't nothing nobody can do about it. So, if it can't be won, it must be delegitimized. The story of every autocrat.