Citing Brexit, Trump DOJ pushes 'single day' elections ahead of Supreme Court case attacking mail voting [View all]

The Trump administration is ramping up its push to turn U.S. elections into single-day affairs — just days before the Supreme Court hears a case that could prevent millions of legally cast mail ballots from being counted nationwide.

In a recent interview, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon framed the administration’s election agenda around two goals: seizing state voter rolls and moving American elections toward a single-day model.

“The rest of the world has elections and they occur on a single day and then they have the outcome later that day,” Dhillon said. “The U.K. determined Brexit in an election that took place in a single day with the outcome later that day. Why can’t America do it?”

Dhillon did not note that the entire United Kingdom is about the size of Oregon — meaning ballots there travel far shorter distances through the mail than across the United States, where mail voting plays a much more vital role.



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