Oregon one of first states to sue Trump for executive order restricting mail-in votes

Blue states: Abso-f******-lutely not Red states: \*Sigh\* Yes daddy...

>Within minutes of the signing, top elections officials in Oregon and Arizona pledged to sue. >Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, said, “We don’t need decrees from Washington, D.C.” Read added: “My message to the President: We’ll see you in court.” >U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said in a post on social media, "Oregonians have successfully voted by mail for over thirty years, and we’ll be damned if we let Donald Trump change the way our state runs its elections. My message to the White House is this: if you come for Oregon’s vote-by-mail, you’ll have hell to pay." >Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, also a Democrat, said Arizona’s vote-by-mail system was designed by Republicans and has delivered secure elections for decades, and that it is now used by 80% of voters. “Donald Trump is attempting to pick his desired list of voters in each state with the Social Security Administration’s help,” Fontes said. “We will not let this stand,” he added. ... Trump’s first election executive order in March 2025 sought sweeping changes to how elections are run across the country, including adding a documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form and requiring mailed ballots to be received at election offices by Election Day. Much of it has been blocked through legal challenges brought by voting rights groups and Democratic state attorneys general who allege it’s an unconstitutional power grab that would disenfranchise large groups of voters. >He also said in a February interview with a conservative podcaster that he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas, >Tuesday's voting order shows he hasn’t learned from his previous, blocked efforts to assert control over elections, said David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research. >“The Constitution is very clear — the president has no power over elections in the states,” Becker said. “This will be blocked as soon as lawyers can get to the courthouse.” >Becker also added that the U.S. Postal Service is run by a board of governors, and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver. >“If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue," Marc Elias, a voting rights litigator and founder of Democracy Docket, said in a social media post. "I don’t bluff and I usually win.” Trump loves violating the US Constitution.

*“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what’s going on,” Trump said* Oregonian here and this pure bullshit. "*A review of the vote by mail system​ by the state’s Legislative Fiscal Office found from 2000-2019 there were approximately 61 million ballots cast. Of those, 38 criminal convictions of voter fraud were obtained. This amounts to a .00006% rate"* ([https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/security.aspx](https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/security.aspx)) Vote-by-mail is the safest and most secure way to vote. Lastly, that fat vile slob just voted by mail, so I guess he cheated.

They really needed to. our primary is in May. So block it now, or don't block it at all

Many Republicans will lose their seats if their broke ass voters can't get to the polls .. I don't see them wanting this, I think Trump just wants it ..

I’m not quite sure why they should even care. A Presidential executive order is NOT a law, and only applies (IF it doesn’t violate the US Constitution) to the Administrative branch of the federal government, NOT to the US States. The US Constitution clearly gives the States the authority and responsibility to run all elections. So this unconstitutional executive order is invalid.

I mean, yeah? That's literally our entire system, and we were the ones who pioneered it.

Another false, clickbait headline from right wing KATU/Sinclair. Do NOT post of KATU/Sinclair. It's a right wing propaganda outlet. Oregon has not yet sued, nor has any other state. What is going on at the moment is almost certainly a lot of discussion among officials from several states and interest groups about how best to structure a complaint for filing in federal court and the motion for TRO that will accompany that filing. It makes much more sense for states to file a single lawsuit join together as plaintiffs than it would make for each state or interest group to start its own lawsuit. I want to see some blue states join in this time. I'm hoping Oregon AG, Dan Rayfield, will take a leading role in this litigation. He's proven himself in the past to be an able and effective field general.

This is just going to galvanize voters more

>“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what’s going on,” Trump said as he signed the order. If anyone knows about cheating it's trump and his MAGGATS.

oregon is the t***

I think of all of Trump's thousands of lies, the pure f****** fantasy he's created in the heads of Republican voters that election fraud is "rampant", elections are "stolen", that Democrats can "only win if they cheat" are his most dangerous ones. We have one of the most secure and robust election systems in the world because of how decentralized it is. Listening to Trump constantly lie and just make up pure bullshit stories about election fraud is frustrating enough, but asd in the fact that his supporters eat it all up with a smile on their faces is even worse. It tears at the foundations of our democracy.

Aside from being unconstitutional, it should be illegal to change the rules in an election year. There isn’t enough time for states to make the necessary preparations nor is there enough time for all parties to have a fair day in court. SCOTUS better not let this stand. My guess is this will get struck and then in November he can cry the election was rigged because his EO got tossed.

That beautiful day…

If the GOP hadn't spent the last 25 years stacking federal courts with conservative judges, I might be optimistic. But that ship sailed a long time ago.

Mark ass magic marker muthafucka.

Imagine committing such a heinous crime you have to commit treason once and then pull every exploitation of a democracy to be allowed to run again. Lose said election to lazy fucks to busy/bummy to actually vote. Cozy up to religious zealots who will never be satisfied even after the country they inhabit (THANKS TO THEIR IMMIGRANT RELATIVES) is completely ruined socially, politically and economically all because the crime you committed would put you AT LEAST in prison for the rest of your life. F*** this child molesting moron. I can’t wait until he is confronted with his actual judgement and gets to reap the consequences of a life of racism, entitlement, sexual abuse and hatred.

As an Oregonian, hell yes! Unconstitutional nonsense by Mango Mussolini.

I fully expect Donald Trump to have no f****** clue how executive orders work, but why does everyone act like they work the way that idiot thinks they do? This isn't a law. It has no legitimate enforcement mechanism. It threatens to illegally withold funding from states that don't follow it. It is ridiculous.

Love my state!

They’re so desperate to not be held accountable for their flagrant abuse of power they are just abusing more power. If the rules don’t matter then nothing matters. Can we agree they know they’re going to lose? You don’t do this unless you know you’re losing.

So it begins. The whole point to do this in the first place is to create chaos in democrat strongholds. Even if they win, which they should, the administration will claim fraud. We lose no matter what.

>The order also calls for ballots to have secure envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking. They already do, in every state I have voted by mail in. I guess Trump didn't look at the envelope when HE voted by mail in a Florida election.

Go Oregon Go!

Trump voted (for Epstein) by mail a few days ago.

Good.

States Rights huh

MAGA wants to stop convicted felons and disgusting criminals from rigging elections and abusing the voting system... maybe someone should tell them?

Good

Thank you Oregon!

Good. He should be sued every time he interferes with elections. That is the Sovereignty of The People.

It’s a meaningless order. Each state controls its own voting.

Great, another lawsuit added to the pile that reaches to the Moon and back, twice.

So military personnel stationed out of state or deployed defending our country would be excluded?

I wonder how Utah feels about this. They also vote mostly by mail or drop off.

But seriously, why is this guy still in office? Are we this jaded? Has the internet truly made us all this dense? How many people died for the rights he's trying to sign away? Americans are too damn comfortable, and it's time we get off our asses and do something about it. This isn't about politics anymore. It's about national security.

F*** yeah Oregon and Arizona.

I guess I’m confused. Does t everybody need to supply ID when they go to the polls to vote? And I know Oregon checks the mail-in ballots closely. I did one and my husband saw I hadn’t signed it so he signed my name and he got into deep trouble with the election people.

I’m sure all those “don’t tread on me” tough guys won’t bend over and get all submissive about this right

Why they write over everything like that with a marker? 

Is this one of the examples it is too close to the election to stop it?

Sue where? To the supreme court (stupid name by the way) which will 100% rule in this child rapist's favour?

So sick of winning they decided to lose their right to vote!

How much will this cost

He is blatantly stealing the election this is treason

Within 120 days of March 31, so about July 31, he wants a rule requiring States to do something within no more than 90 days of an election,  which is about August 3. I.e. A State has 3 days to get approval for vote by mail.

There are already articles suggesting USPS won't deliver the voter packets in states that don't follow the EO and won't return any ballots that don't have your name on the outside so they can check it with their lists. If your name isn't on their list, your ballot won't be delivered. I strongly question the logistics of all this as they will be a nightmare to implement so goodness only knows what will actually happen. I suspect mail-in voting is going to be a huge problem no matter what as USPS does whatever his Orangeness wants. I suspect USPS is going to engage in funny business with the ballots. I say this based on the fact there was a lot of this with the last election (as if they were testing the waters or were already manipulating voting) in which many people reported never receiving their ballots or the ballots were never received by the county election officials. BTW, this was mostly in blue states. No matter how you look at things, you know he's going to be pulling every stunt in the book with this election. If it isn't this then it will be something (or more likely several somethings) else. He will try stuff with mail in voting by ordering USPS to do things, having ICE or the military at polling locations, will have last minute polling location (and drop box) closures and moves to different, less convenient locations to limit the number of places where people can vote, might even have last minute bomb threats to intimidate people from voting (as well as other types of threats/intimidation), and if all that doesn't deliver the desired results, there will be some type of false flag operation he can use with one of his many handy wars to cancel or otherwise delay the elections. They might even send the FBI in the seize huge quantities of ballots under the excuse they're removing a bomb (or some other excuse). They have already shown they don't have a problem with seizing large numbers of ballots. If people get upset about this, he then brings out Martial Law, the Insurrection Act, etc. to completely suppress them and turn the US into one giant ope air prison. This is the point where bad goes to worse in a hurry. I get it that this EO is against the law, but when has the law ever stopped the Republicans? Litigation only works until they start disappearing those judges. While I can't say how he will do it, I am absolutely certain he will. I am afraid the days of free and fair elections are over, future elections will be heavily rigged - if we're allowed to have them at all.

Get 'em Oregon! In Florida, vote by mail registration is annual. And, Florida doesn't do much in terms of reminding voters to re-register. Funny, we can vote if we get up and drive somewhere, causing traffic and burning fossil fuels, without annual re-registration. How does that work? It's just a road block set up to make voting difficult.

It's pretty nice being able to sit down with the voter book and read each candidate and prop as you fill out your ballot and then drive it over to a drop box. Much better than standing in line to spend 2 min quick punching a ticket after standing there 2 hours.

Why even bother? Just ignore it. Make *them* sue.

Anecdotal, but aren't most mail in ballots coming from registered republicans?