Trump’s pledge to cancel the vote on the email may receive our elections at a tail

US President Donald Trump threatens to ban the vote on the mail before elections in the middle of the country-a maneuver that can throw the electoral system in different millions of voters who depend on this method of voting.

Trump has It was disposed of against voting by mail Since he lost the 2020 elections and began to retreat Fake claims on Fraud ballot cards The result is deviant.

This time, an executive will stop the established practice once and for all, even as scientists say it has no authority at all to make a change of such a view of some constitutional facts.

“This is not a difficult question – the president cannot do this. The period,” Jeremy Paul, a professor at the University of North Eston Law Faculty, who studies the elections, said in an interview with CBC News.

The constitution gives countries to control the elections

Paul said that the prohibited post of Trump is a form of “authoritarian fans’ imagination” based on “lies” designed to explain his defeat in the Kofid era elections.

He said that the founders of the country expected a tyrannical president, and for this reason they gave the states the authority to control the federal elections.

However, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could intervene when it seems that the states have lost, as they did with Voting Rights Law For 1965 this was aimed at preventing racial discrimination in voting and after 2000 Vote Frakas In Florida.

The foundations of the founders were clearly placed in the US constitution. The legislative bodies of the state will read “Determine times, places and the way to hold elections”, which is a document for centuries Trump pledge To maintain, protect and defend.

But Trump has not left the legal barriers that cannot be prevented in the past.

“Trump looks at the election landscape and can say that his party will not achieve a good performance in 2026. So, he will do anything he can do to fit his anti -democratic agenda,” Paul said.

“He is trying to send a message that democracy is an old hat and we are in a new world now. We hope that our country will tolerate it. It is frightening. If you are not afraid, you do not care.”

The long history of a mail voting

Each state in the federation has a form of voting on mail or “absence” to facilitate citizens to vote.

It is a practice dating back to the American Civil War, when former President Abraham Lincoln wanted to give soldiers away from home in politics. Workers, families who suffer from care concerns, rural population and the elderly are others who often bear to vote on the mail.

While this practice is preferred by Democrats during the epidemic, defenders say there is no history of polling cards via mail that deviates in a way or another.

It requires twenty -eight countries No excuse To order the postal polling. Eight states – including a deep red like Utah – and Colombia province runs almost its elections Completely by mail And she has for years.

In the last elections, more than 46 million ballot cards were sent by mail – or 30 percent of all votes that were delivered, according to the American Elections Assistance Committee.

Trump easily won the elections after each state swept the battlefield thanks to partially to the mail voting cards, which He promoted his team.

Suggested changes “calling for chaos”

Unlike Canada, voting generally includes choosing one candidate, polling cards in the American elections are often practical.

In the 2024 elections, for example, the Marizona Province in Arizona needed two pages to pressure the names of all local, boycott, state, federal, judges, and polls.

There were 144 elected offices, 45 judges and 76 voting polls in parts of that province, which include major population centers such as Phoenix and Scottsdale.

It takes some time to sort many options – and calculate such a long -hand poll, as Trump is now demanding that he be paid to get rid of machines by 2026, will inevitably lead to a long delay in achieving results.

Barbara Smith Warner, Executive Director of the National Voting at the local institute, told CBC News that such changes will be so troubled that it is difficult if it is not impossible to hold elections working at full capacity in 2026.

“This is not a coincidence. It is an invitation to chaos,” she said.

“This is a direct attempt to deny voters. Any attempt to decline, eliminate voting or limit voting at home with mail voting is just to silence the voters.”

What is behind this batch?

Trump put his last promise to abandon this poll after discussing what he called “fraud” for the elections with Russian President Vladimir Putin – a worrying option to discuss democratic reforms, given what this leader did for voting rights in his country.

Putin has organized the fake elections that would even make North Koreans blush.

He has Political opponents prisonAnd others have He died under mysterious circumstances. There was no A real opposition party In years.

Trump told Fox News after saying in Alaska late last week: “Vladimir Putin said one of the most interesting things.

“It is impossible to make a mail vote and sincere elections.” He said that for me.

As a reminder, Trump The former public prosecutor has not found any evidence of widespread fraudA joint study from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Security No evidence was found on the results of the treated elections The final report concluded the January 6 Committee in the House of Representatives Trump participated in a “multi -part plot” to cancel the elections Based on false allegations of fraud.

Trump was Later on a criminal accusation of four crimes To try to cancel the elections.

However, in his oval office, he sits with Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski on Monday, Trump described postal cards as “corrupt”.

“You cannot have a real democracy with polling cards via mail, and we, as a Republican party, will do everything that is possible until we get rid of it,” he said.

Smith Warner says that discussing these issues with Putin only calls on Russia to interfere in the American democratic process again, such as US intelligence agencies and the Republican Senate Committee I found that they did in the 2016 campaign.

“Whoever takes advice on democracy or elections from a firm authoritarian dictator,” said Putin. “It is not Ben Franklin.”

Rare fraud with polling cards via mail

There are some fraud accidents with polling cards via mail, but they are rare.

The workers of the Republican campaign were in North Carolina It was seized in 2021 To pick up the alleged absence. In 1997, some Democrats in Georgia were accused of buying to vote With polling cards absence.

One studyWho reviewed a 12 -year -old vote, found that the number of fraud cases was “unlikely” with 491 incidents of fraud in the absentee polling from among the hundreds of millions of votes that were made in the US elections between 2000 and 2012.

In a report on the 2020 elections, Associated Press Discover nearly 475 possible cases of voters In the established six states, I studied, including some voting cases on criminals and others who provide voting cards for the dead – is not enough to change any result.

Smith Warner says the last Diatribes from Trump and the re -revised fraud allegations are just “more lies.”

“The vote is the cornerstone of our democracy,” she said. “If it is not important, people will not try hard to prevent you from doing it.”