@ChrisMayLA6

Another interesting effect is that almost everyone on the #statepension will fill in a self-assessment form for tax since the triple locked pension will exceed the personal allowance.. The form includes their national insurance number. As it happens a national insurance number is now required when applying to vote by post - an application which lapses and would have to be renewed every three years. So fiscal drag will support postal voting and reduce #votersuppression !

@mastodonmigration

Important facts to remember:

* During the #2024Election , #BlueSky went viral on #Xitter , which pulled a lot of liberals there. Unlike the times when #Mastodon trended for migration, #Elon never tried to silence those tweets.

* #BlueSky has no ads, but tracks user data even more than #Meta or #Xitter, and uses a manipulative algorithm. Why pay so much money to do all of that data manipulation, if you don't use it for your own profit?

#JayGraber is one of the #BigData billionaires who manipulated the last election--by dividing the left, and suppressing the vote. So many on there were made to believe they could "protest" for #Gaza by withholding their vote-- just as so many on the DIVIDED left refused to vote for #Hillary in 2016.

You can expect they will manipulate the next ones, subtly but effectively, by dividing the left in 2026 & 2028. #DontTrustBlueSky

…legal experts say the order exceeds #Trump’s power because the Constitution gives states the authority to set the “times, places & manner” of #elections, with #Congress allowed to set rules for elections to federal office. As Friday’s ruling states, the #Constitution makes no provision for presidents to set the rules for elections.

Oregon & Washington, which conduct their #elections almost entirely by mail, filed a separate lawsuit over the #ballot deadline, saying the #ExecutiveOrder could disenfranchise voters in their #states. When the lawsuit was filed, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs noted that more than 300,000 ballots in the state arrived after Election Day in 2024.

The order also would require #states to exclude any mail-in or absentee ballots received after Election Day & puts states’ federal #funding at risk if #election officials don’t comply. Currently, 18 states & Puerto Rico accept mailed ballots received after Election Day as long they are postmarked on or before that date, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

#Trump has said his #ExecutiveOrder *secures* elections against illegal voting by noncitizens, though multiple studies & investigations in the #states have shown that it’s exceedingly rare & typically a mistake. Casting a ballot as a noncitizen is already against the #law & can result in fines & #deportation if convicted.

The order is the culmination of Trump’s longstanding complaints about #elections. After his first win in 2016, #Trump falsely claimed his popular vote total would have been much higher if not for “millions of people who voted illegally.” Since 2020, Trump has made false claims of widespread voter fraud & manipulation of voting machines to explain his loss to Democrat Joe #Biden. [when really he’s just a sore loser]

Casper cited arguments made by the #states that the requirements would “burden the States with significant efforts & substantial costs” to update procedures.

The ruling is the second #legal setback for #Trump’s election order. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., previously blocked parts of the directive, including the proof-of-#citizenship requirement for the federal #VoterRegistration form.

“The #Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over #elections,” Judge Casper wrote.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282905/gov.uscourts.mad.282905.107.0.pdf

Casper also noted that, when it comes to #citizenship, “there is no dispute (nor could there be) that U.S. citizenship is required to vote in federal elections & the federal voter registration forms require attestation of citizenship.”

The #state AGs said the directive “usurps the States’ #constitutional #power & seeks to amend #ElectionLaw by fiat.” The #Trump admin defended the order as “standing up for free, fair & honest elections” & called proof of citizenship a “commonsense” requirement.

Judge Denise J. Casper of the US District Court in Massachusetts said in Friday’s order that the #states had a likelihood of success as to their #legal challenges.