Trump's Latest Power Grab Aims at the Ballot Box

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : It's a bit of a surprise that it's taken Donald Trump over two months in office to extend his broad-based campaign of presidential power grabs into the familiar area of election administration.
34% : None of this precedent deterred Trump.
30% : Trump's motive for going after this aspect of state election administration is unclear.
26% : In effect, this is an imposition by executive action of the SAVE Act that Trump and congressional Republicans pushed last year to dramatize their entirely undocumented contention that noncitizen voting was widespread.
20% : After all, the claim that Democrats have systematically rigged elections is one of the great foundational myths of the MAGA movement, speciously refuting any electoral setback Trump or his minions might experience and providing a sinister rationale for the supposed "open borders" policies of the Biden administration (you know, the really stupid but persistent belief that migrants were being herded across the border by Democrats and then immediately registered to vote).
14% : Trump and other Republicans have regularly claimed without any evidence that post-election receipt of ballots filled out, sealed and mailed by Election Day is inherently fraudulent.

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