President Trump has announced he wants mail-in ballots eliminated. Quite honestly, that would be the best thing for our electoral system. Case in point, the latest ballot stuffing misadventure by a councilman from Hamtramck, Michigan.
A Michigan city council member was caught on camera stuffing an election drop box with apparent absentee ballots just days before he won his re-election bid in a local primary.
Hamtramck City Council member Abu Musa was seen in the passenger seat of a car on Aug. 1 handing stacks of paper to the car’s driver, who then dumped them into a nearby ballot box, footage obtained by Local 4 appears to show.
Musa held on to his re-election spot in the primary four days later on Aug. 5, beating out 11 other candidates with 1,129 votes.
But only 286 of those votes were cast on Election Day — with 843 being cast by absentee ballot, the Daily Mail reported.
This is yet another example of how this mail-in ballot system can be manipulated. Think about it. 286 people voted in person on election day in that city, but 843 voted by…absentee ballot?? Really? And now this news comes out regarding that very same election involving the city councilman who managed to squeak out that win.
But Democrats continually tell us the system ISN’T rigged. That no one would DARE break the rules. That the Republicans talking about this issue are making a mountain out of a non-existent molehill! Except, there are receipts. MANY receipts.
Again, I can tell you there are problems with this system. One, it is easy to game the system. Two, voter turnout has gone down in many places after mail ballots were implemented. Three, voting system machines can and have been hacked over the years. Four, someone can sign a ballot, but did that person actually FILL out the ballot? There’s no oversight in that respect.
Fifth, here in Colorado along with 17 other states, illegal aliens are given drivers licenses.
Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state’s list of residents with driver’s licenses.
The office of Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold insisted none of the noncitizens will be allowed to register to vote if they try.
The news comes at a time of widespread skepticism — often unfounded — of voting integrity following the 2020 presidential election and as Griswold, who has touted her role as a national advocate for secure elections, seeks reelection in the November midterms.
The current system in place does not and I mean does NOT identify whether one who has a drivers license is here illegally or not. Which also means that the CO voter database doesn’t identify either. So how Jena Griswold’s office can continue to claim that no illegal has been A. registered to vote and B. actually voted is beyond comprehension.
President Trump has and continues to make his position on mail-in ballots abundantly clear.
President Trump unveiled plans Monday to sign an executive order claiming to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections” by banning both mail-in voting and electronic tabulation machines.
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES,” Trump declared on Truth Social.
The president did not provide any evidence to back up his claims that voting machines are “highly inaccurate.” Most voters live in municipalities where they cast paper ballots that are scanned by voting machines and are subject to multiple checks to ensure accuracy.
All systems are fallible. Every. Single. One.
For Democrats to claim that all voting systems are 1000% secure all of the time is gaslighting at it’s finest. For them to claim that no one would dare to game the system by filling out ballots that don’t belong to them is asinine. And then there are those who will blame President Trump or even try to claim he’s Putin’s puppet on this matter.
Yeah, because before Trump’s meeting with Putin last Friday, Trump has never mentioned mail-in ballot fraud… pic.twitter.com/1x8lK4acAd
— Kimberly (@RealKimberlySez) August 18, 2025
And then there are others who are rushing to the Constitution to claim he can’t do that thing. While ignoring the fact that he stated explicitly that he wanted to start a MOVEMENT. *Sigh, they just can’t help themselves. While others completely get it.
https://twitter.com/Sessler/status/1957477299743572370
The fact is, mail-in balloting has been no good for our electoral system. My home state of WY still has polling places. It’s great to watch people of all ages show up in droves to read through and cast their ballots. That’s something that young people today don’t grasp. It’s about more than filling those little bubbles. It’s about researching the issues, the candidates and more. It’s about realizing that YOUR VOICE is being heard and you are doing so personally and yet publicly by showing up to the voting booth.
Mail-in ballots have been detrimental to our political process. I’m with President Trump. I’m all for bringing back the polling booths.
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draigh says: Since we don’t promote Civics or Economics in K-12 any more, let alone patriotism, we don’t teach how important it is to get out and vote. To make voting easier, I would suggest we extend the days you can vote for a week, Monday thru Sunday. But I would also suggest that the vote tallies, by law, cannot be revealed until the following week. By extending the number of days you can vote, there should be no need for mail in ballots unless you are sick or going to be out of the country. We shouldn’t be gathering more than some thousands of those ballots which likely wouldn’t push an election one way or another.
draigh says: Oh, and as for Illegals getting driver’s licenses. I’m OK with that as long as they get a different color license if they cannot provide proof of citizenship when they apply for the license.
[…] ME TOO. THE QUESTION IS HOW TO DO IT WITHOUT DOING SEVERE DAMAGE TO STATE RIGHTS: Trump Wants Mail-In Ballots Eliminated And I’m In Total Agreement . […]
Patrick Brady says: There’s a simple way to end mail-in voting: ban the USPS from touching ballots in any form. Congress has the power to regulate what the USPS does and how it does it.
A nationally implemented ban on USPS handling ballots ends mail-in voting
Congress + POTUS CAN OUTLAW MAIL-IN VOTING Nationally in about 2 months
….by making it illegal for USPS to carry ballots Git’r done before 2026 primaries.
Here’s how:
Congress has authority over the USPS under the Constitution’s Postal Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7), which grants it the power to establish and regulate post offices and postal roads. Congress could pass a law prohibiting the USPS from handling ballots, and if the President signs it, it would become law.
Alternatively, the President could issue an executive order affecting USPS operations, but such an order would likely be limited by existing laws and subject to legal challenges.
There is a marketing campaign that needs to be done emphasizing the positive. Anytime a politician says that mail-in ballots can’t game the system ask them to prove it. They won’t be able to because they cannot prove who actually voted.
Another way would be to allow mail-in voting only if the state can provide a receipt to the alleged voter,
Anna A says: As a poll worker in Ohio, i have this question for those who want longer voting periods. Who are going to be the workers? For us, we can vote early only at the Board of Elections, and that is what I have to do, since the vote center that I work at isn’t the one I would vote at. I think that it is about 3 weeks before the actual election, with longer hours the week before.
And 15 hour days for multiple days would probably cut down on the workers, since many of us are on the older side.
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