Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don't Actually Exist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Like many of the Trump administration's recent moves, this executive order brings in Musk, billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, to access voting records.
56% : This is kind of a minor thing, but the funniest part of the executive order, to me, was that Trump was saying that states need to implement voting machines that don't actually exist.
52% : The justices may say that Trump is above the law when it comes to what he can do with elections.
51% : When Democrats tried to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act a few years ago, you heard over and over from Republicans that states should run their own elections.
47% : There is no authority other than in these three states that pertain to the 5 Circuit where Trump could do this.
44% : The only place I know of where Trump might have the authority to do this would be Mississippi.
44% : This is the same Supreme Court that said Trump had king-like power and that the president is above the law when it comes to inciting an insurrection.
44% : I think in basically every sphere, Trump is trying to push the limits of executive power.
43% : This is an independent agency, so Trump can't actually order it to do anything.
41% : This is not voter ID as we've thought of it.
40% : States have been complaining for a while that they're not getting enough federal funding for elections.
39% : There's a lot of concern about how Trump might try to manipulate the electoral process in advance of the midterms if it looks like Democrats are going to do well, and I kind of think this is the first salvo in that battle.
36% : The first is that Trump is directing the Election Assistance Commission, which is a pretty obscure independent agency that was created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
35% : Well, suddenly Trump is saying that states actually don't have the power to run their elections and should be run based on the way he wants them to be run.
34% : Trump is trying to do some pretty sweeping things that definitely impinge on both the power of Congress and the power of the states in ways that I don't recall any president ever attempting to do.
34% : Trump is saying, No, you have to use a different kind of machine, but those machines don't actually exist.
32% : A lot of this executive order rests on Trump telling states to do things and if they don't comply, the attorney general or some other entity will retaliate against them.
32% : Trump wants to govern like a dictatorship.
31% : However, we don't know what kinds of steps Trump might take against the states that refuse to comply.
28% : It's kind of like a carrot-and-stick approach, but we've seen with Trump that this stick can be pretty harsh and aggressive.
28% : If Trump doesn't like the state or the people who are running the state, who knows what he'll try to do against them?
26% : Pretty much everything Trump is doing has already been tried, in some form or another, and has been rejected.
22% : Do you think this executive order will face a similar fate as other actions by Trump and end up being challenged in court?
20% : Trump has been making false claims about voter fraud for years now.
13% : I mentioned in my piece that the Trump administration tried this before: They set up a whole election integrity commission in 2017, after Trump claimed that 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election in California and that's why he lost the popular vote.

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