Poll: Americans worry Trump will seize ballots, voting machines in midterms

…because that’s exactly what Trump said he’d do & what he’ll absolutely attempt to do.

Trump literally tried to seize voting machines in 2020. They were considering ordering the military to do it. 

I really wish they were more worried about it 18 months ago.

I’m not worried. I’m voting. I’m donating to candidates that have a chance. And I reject fearmongering that might keep people sitting on the sidelines in 2026/2028. But that’s just me.

Time to lock him up …and take every traitorous pathological lying pigs in ICE too
All of them are going to be in Alligator alley soon.
What a bunch of losers…

He will 100% try to do so.

Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‘big lie” of a stolen election.

The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.

Republicans have frequently attacked or have sought to eliminate election procedures/conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing ID laws, automatic/same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures… Ask yourself why!?

They exploit the misinformed and take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while granting their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.

They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.

Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.

This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.

On top of all of this, Republicans were trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.

And to make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs to occupy US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he likely plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.

Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans deliberately ignore or fail to address properly.

Like foreign election meddling, the awful Citizens United ruling and campaign finance corruption.

If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans are exploiting, instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.

But Republicans have all but succeeded at using these conspiracy theories to divert attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.

Another strategy they’ve been employing for years now involves scapegoating immigrants and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame for our nation’s problems; including manufactured issues like rampant “voter fraud.”

This is despite the fact that there is no evidence that undocumented immigrants are voting in our elections in any conceivable material way.

It is so exceedingly rare that the number of noncitizens voting in our elections might as well be zero. Even the most generous of studies shows that the figure is around *ten thousandths* of a percent.

Yes, one study revealed that number to be 0.0001%. Mind you this was 30 suspected (not verified) cases out of 23.5 *million.*

Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”

The deploying of soldiers to our cities was a test run for doing just this.

They were testing both the logistics and public support.

All the people saying “he can’t do that!” Need to realize those rules don’t apply anymore

He will absolutely do it. He’ll do it quick and fast and by the time the courts come down with a ruling, it won’t matter.

Also, as an aside: Trump and Elon didn’t rig the 2024 election. Americans were just that dumb and worked up. And now we are here.

Then why did you vote for him, America?

I’m more worried he’s going to seize or turn away voters until the election is over.

Would be cool if he did

Because it’s a valid fear.

😁 he is going to seize something

Little bit late to be worrying about all that…