cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823
Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.
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And worse yet, he’ll quite possibly have the cooperation of the compromised establishment Dems like Schumer and Jeffries, who face almost as great a threat of losing their seats as the Republicans do. And similarly, he’ll likely get behind-the-scenes assistance from the utterly compromised and corrupt DNC, who are self-evidently perfectly content to keep raking in soft money in exchange for only pretending to be the opposition.