For Election Integrity, Trump Thinks THIS Is More Important Than Both Voter ID And Widespread Mail Ballots
For the sake of restoring American faith in elections, former President Donald Trump has suggested that all states should abandon electronic voting machines and revert to paper ballots instead.
Trump made the remark during an exclusive two-hour interview with Breitbart News at his golf club, which took place earlier this week. Other changes he supported included the need of voter identification as well as the elimination of early voting and most mail-in votes.
“Voter ID is very important,” Trump said in an interview with Breitbart.
“And stop the mail-in ballots unless it’s for military and overseas or very sick people, people that just can’t vote — and they have to have some kind of a real excuse. I think paper ballots, same-day voting would be great. Those things, you’d straighten out your elections.”
“The single biggest topic for the Republican Party is the voter fraud of 2020 — not 2022, not 2024,” Trump said. “You’ll never get to 2024, you’ll never get to 2022
Germany, which is preparing for a federal election on September 26th, does not count ballots using electronic voting machines. The paper ballots must be “solidly watched paper ballots.”
In July, Federal Returning Officer Georg Thiel informed German news source Deutsche Welle that his office did not have any voting equipment. It is the ballot paper that is ultimately used to determine who wins the election. Thiel, who is in charge of overseeing Germany’s elections, referred to his country’s system of tabulating votes as “old school.”
In a similar vein, Canada has maintained a policy of hand-counted paper votes, which was made public last year.
A recent study, released by the nonpartisan election monitoring organization Citizens for Voting Integrity New York, found many additional nations, in addition to Germany and Canada, that support paper and hand-counting methods over electronic voting machines for their elections.
Among those who participated were the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Ireland.
This was verified by the Pew Research Center, which found that paper ballots are by far the most popular method of casting a vote. Electronic voting machines are used in just 10% of the world’s nations and territories, according to the United Nations.
According to Breitbart, Trump did not clarify whether he supports counting votes by hand or any other kind of vote-counting method other than Dominion Voting Systems in his interview with the publication.
Trump’s views on mail-in ballots are consistent with those held by the majority of countries across the world.
According to research published in 2020, 74 percent of European nations prohibit people residing inside their borders from casting mail-in absentee votes. Some countries, such as the Czech Republic and Greece, do not allow voters to cast absentee votes at all. Japan restricts mail-in voting to just those who have obtained specific handicap certificates that prove their eligibility. Mexico prohibits the mailing of absentee votes, with the exception of nationals residing abroad who have requested them at least six months before the election.
Absentee ballots that are sent in are not the same as widespread mail-in ballots, and they should not be confused. For voters to be eligible for absentee votes, they must make a particular request for their ballots and follow the regulations in order to get them within the specified time period before an election. U
Trump said that the abundance of these disputed votes would have had the potential to change the course of history.
Trump’s notions about “same-day voting” aren’t completely out of line with the rest of the world’s traditions. 43 of the 50 states in the United States presently allow some kind of in-person early voting, while the other three do not. Despite this, it is prohibited in 68 percent of European nations. Only between 33 and 35 percent of African and Asian countries allow it to be practiced there.
Despite these facts, many leftists wish to move voting days back even further, to earlier and earlier dates:
Trump spoke on some of the states that have pushed election changes throughout the country, complimenting in particular Texas, where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is set to sign the state’s voting reform legislation into law.
According to Breitbart News In the interview, Trump stressed the need of the Republican Party focusing not just on the future with voting changes, but also on uncovering the fraud that he thinks occurred during the 2020 election.
