Trump vows to try banning mail-in voting before 2026 midterm elections — can he do that?
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President Trump says he plans to sign an executive order "to end mail-in ballots, because they're corrupt." Here's what to know about his claims.

Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.

“We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.”

  • Xatolos@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    What if we could give each citizen a crypto-signed coin at citizenship registry through citizenship tests or birth, it was required to be destroyed at death, and kept in line with an accurate population census?

    Let me see if I understand this, it sounds like you want to make the crypto version of a Social Security number, but also in physical form (a coin).

    The issues here is what happens when it’s lost? They would have to invalid the lost one (or be stuck with the Social Security angle that can’t be changed, but with a “trusted token” in the wild as well), but that means changing numbers and that would go against the whole crypto angle. And then it would be used as a form of ID (Social Security wasn’t ever meant to be used as ID, but like your suggestion, it is “unique” and issued at birth/citizenship). We already have enough problems with Social Security numbers being used for fraud, this would only make the matter worse I feel. (Again, as a “more trustworthy item due to crypto” public belief.)

    As for population census, this wouldn’t help much because if people leave the country, then they aren’t part of the census count. But people don’t revoke their citizenship when they leave or even make a form letter to their government that they are going to be living more than 6 months out of the year in another country (the usual standard to be considered if you live in the country or not).