Last week, President Trump declared that he is leading “a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots” and “highly ‘inaccurate,’ very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines,” claiming that they cost ten times more than “accurate and sophisticated watermark paper.”
President Trump then made a controversial claim: “the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes” and that “they must do what the Federal Government…tells them…to do.”
Anti-federalists would shockingly align with Voting ‘Rights’ NGOs, who seem to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome quite often, and cry out “the state legislatures were prescribed this authority!”
This is of course in reference to Article 1 Section 4, generally called the Elections Clause. And while that is fundamentally correct, it is also only one of two aspects to the Elections Clause and omits that the U.S. Congress still preempts the states’ legislatures.