CBS News election analyst David Becker told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that there is "simply no time" to put in place President Trump's executive order restricting mail voting. "I think for 2026, this is almost certainly not…
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Becker says there's no time for mail-voting order; lawmaker's fix: more pictures.
As it ran on the front
Here's the sequence, in order, no embellishment needed. David Becker goes on CBS and says there's no time left for Trump's executive order on mail voting to actually get implemented before it matters — the clock's just gone. Around the same time, according to the New York Post, one lawmaker's answer for 'fixing our laws' is more pictures. Not more polling places. Not more time to count the mail ballots that are apparently already too rushed to handle. More pictures.
You know what more pictures means. It means another ID requirement, another form, another trip somewhere for somebody who doesn't drive, doesn't own a car, doesn't have three hours on a Tuesday to stand in a line at an office that closes at four. It's not a fix for the actual problem on the table, which is a mail-voting system running out of runway. It's a fix for a different problem, the one where the lawmaker would rather you didn't vote by mail at all.…
…(cont) That's the con, and it's not subtle once you see the order things happened in. First you let the clock run out on the system that makes it easy — mail voting, no line, no missed shift at work. Then, once that system's declared too rushed to implement properly, you show up with the fix, and the fix is a new document requirement for the in-person alternative everybody just got funneled back into. Nobody had to conspire on this one. You just had to be patient and let 'no time' do the work.
The guy who loses a shift standing in line for an ID he didn't need under the old system — he's not reading the CBS transcript and the New York Post story side by side. He's just standing in line. That's the whole point of doing it this way. The connection only has to be visible to the people getting paid to not see it.
“First the mail option runs out of clock, then the fix for democracy turns out to be another form to carry to another office. Nobody voted for that order of operations; it just happened that way.”
“Requiring identification protects the integrity of every ballot, that's just common sense, nothing to do with who does or doesn't have a car — okay, it has something to do with that, but still, common sense.”
The receipts
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) is pushing the idea of illustrations in all new bills in Congress — because text alone is just too difficult to comprehend.
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