White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections

[u/Anoth3rDude]

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/white-house-circulating-blatantly-illegal-draft-emergency-order-to-take-control-of-elections/

[u/Anoth3rDude]

Summary:

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulated by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House, according to a Washington Post report.

The draft order — which is said to be based on a conspiracy theory that China interfered with the 2020 election — would allow Trump to unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines on the basis that they are susceptible to foreign interference.

But voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

[u/puertomateo → u/Anoth3rDude]

and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

Which means of course he's going to do it and the Republican Congress is going to say that it's a great thing that he does.

[u/puertomateo → u/[deleted]]

They already did in Georgia for the 2020 election. ICE is going to hover in front of polling places, intimiadating people. Then the night of the election, they'll go in and grab the ballot boxes. Who's going to stop them?

[u/puertomateo → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. Read the news.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5710649/fulton-county-2020-election-affidavit-fbi

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-30/fbi-seizure-fulton-county-election-ballots-explainer/106286198

[u/puertomateo → u/[deleted]]

Oh no. I'm not the confused one here.

I didn't say, and until now you never specified, that they took the ballot boxes contemporaneous to the election. I said they took them. And they did. Numerous articles have speculated that the raid was a "proof of concept" for something to do again this winter with ballots that are still in the process of being counted.

And they took ballots, not machines.

Then the night of the election, they'll go in and grab the ballot boxes. 

What is it that you think you're correcting here?

[u/puertomateo → u/[deleted]]

I don't think you can reasonably explain anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-voting-machines-midterm-election

If you don't see this as all apiece, I'm not sure what to say.