Dave Weigel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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When that's, again, not something the president was able to prove.
This is where the speech was less important than the actions the government's going to try to continue to take to interfere in in state elections, because it's not the federal.
The federal government is trying to
impose some standards on the states.
It is states and counties that conduct elections.
And this is the second time Donald Trump has been president with some influence over what kind of grants states can get to run elections.
That's the way that the administration is trying to shape the midterms.
So the Department of Homeland Security the next day announced, and this is Mark Wendell Mullen, the new secretary there, announced that if states want grants to cover their elections expenses, they're going to need to, quote unquote, scrub their voter rolls.
Meaning audit the rolls and get rid of people who have died, people who have moved.
This is a very common problem.
I've moved in the last year and I'm still on DC's voter rolls and I need to call to get myself off.
I don't intend to commit election fraud in the meantime.
But right now, if you went into DC's voter rolls, you'd find that I am on there.
And you could probably, if you wanted to wave a piece of paper around and make it look like a conspiracy, you definitely could.
that they need to also audit their machines.
The machines had to be secured.
Now, the administration is also trying to use control of the postal system to manipulate how ballots are sent and received around elections.
That's something Democrats have a lot of worry about because they still, in most states, Democrats, benefit from mail voting.
It's not.
And Republican voters believe, we've seen this in polling, that when Democrats have won elections recently, it has been stolen.
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