With the Trump The administration attracting both the spirit and the letter of the United States Constitution on several fronts, President Donald Trump has also become increasingly vocal – and combative – in his plans for the American electoral administration.
After almost a decade of federal and state investment in elections and integrity security initiatives, researchers and electoral officials working in the field through the country were clear that the American electoral infrastructure is as robust and transparent as ever. In an executive decree of March and subsequent comments on social networks, Trump promoted a baseless counter-habit according to which the American electoral infrastructure is exceeded and unreliable, requiring a federal intervention.
The Trump administration has also reduced a large part of the federal government’s electoral security work and has installed officials from the Ministry of Homeland Security who deny the validity of Trump’s presidential loss in 2020. More recently, the promoter of electoral conspiracy Heather Honey was appointed deputy secretary for the integrity of the US Department of Internal Security.
“Remember that states are just a” agent “for the federal government to count and tabulate the votes,” wrote Trump on Truth Social last month. “They must do what the federal government, represented by the President of the United States, told them.”
Non -partisan electoral experts emphasize that this is a completely inaccurate and misleading interpretation of the American Constitution and the decentralized electoral model and controlled by the state it describes.
“He is in the Constitution from the start, article one, that the States have established the time, the place and the manner of the elections. “Trump makes all these declarations according to which he will end the voting by mail, that the voting machines cannot trust, but he cannot do it. He certainly has the chair of intimidator, however, to induce and confuse the public – and the power to intimidate.”
Pamela Smith, President of Verified Voting, a non -profit non -profit organization that promotes the integrity of the electoral system, stresses that it is very difficult to unpack and unravel the concerns that the administration raises the intrinsically inappropriate use of the presidency as a vehicle to try to dictate the electoral requirements. “It is really difficult to talk about all this when the context is simply false,” says Smith. “It is not in the White House to tell the election assistance committee:” You should change the way you make the certification and the award of voting machines “.”
Ben Adida, executive director of the manufacturer of non -profit voting open source voting Maker, stresses that it is a good thing to encourage state officials and local authorities to give priority to aged voting machines so that they comply with current best practices and standards. He says that it was a “positive development” of the March decree, although it also notes that “the suggested moment in this decree is far too tight to be realistic”.
