The Dispatch14%
Trump’s Efforts to Impose Federal Authority Over Elections See Mixed Results 39%
By Ashley Dowdney0% Eli Kronenberg0%
7/15/2026, 6:46:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Ad Hominem, and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 15.4% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 483 faulty-reasoning hits from 482 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.5% and a BS Rank of 39% (9,884 of 16,190 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 61.00% of the article peer group.
After a series of legal defeats that frustrated President Donald Trump’s attempts to overhaul state election procedures ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump doubled down in dramatic fashion.
Empowered by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upheld his authority to fire independent agency officials without cause, the president last week dismissed two Democratic members of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency that helps states with election logistics and security, and allowed the remaining member, a Republican, to resign.
Statements like this are a smokescreen “States that fail to use the free national program for political reasons undermine voter confidence that elections are secure and accurate,” he said. .....
No.
Voter confidence has been eroded by a constant barrage of Republican nonsense.
Most recent election fraud has been a few incidents where a political operative submitted forms that he or she signed him or herself - whether a registration or application for a ballot.
Many/most have been caught.
You beat me to it.
No one has “undermine(d) voter confidence that elections are secure and accurate,” than one Donald J.
Trump.
If states don’t comply, 20 percent of the federal anti-terrorism funding grants, which fund everything from protecting large crowds to cybersecurity, could be withheld.
We're seeing more and more of this.
When the Federal Government taxes the citizens of all the states but only serves some of the states...
I think there's a Boston Tea Party like lesson in there somewhere.
I'll share the rule of thumb that I use in my conversations with my more MAGA family members: "Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary proof."
"I was watching the election returns come in and there were a bunch of Democrat votes that came in at 2 AM and that just didn't feel right," is not proof.
If you want the federal government to take over elections, I want to see proof of the harm you're solving, and so far there is none.
(Unless the "harm" you're actually trying to solve is "Democrats win too many elections.")
The state of North Carolina has long used voting machines thst record a voter’s choice.
Voters can see for themselves the candidates they chose.
The last election we had a paper ballot that we fed into a machine.
I don’t see why that is an improvement.
I have worked elections for years and in the last four years I have started saying as I tell our voters to choose a ballot (blank ballots are not given to voters but they may choose one from the signed blanks on the table) and remind them that when they are finished they should take a minute to read their paper ballot as they will be able to clearly see for whom they voted.
It's a paper ballot.
I'm making a point.
Some of them get it!
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