80-Year-Old Lawyer Demands Voting Overhaul Because Machines Are Too Fancy

KEY POINTS

•Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old Florida lawyer linked to Trump, advocates for wiping out machine and mail-in voting.
•Republican House leaders rejected a DHS funding deal passed overnight Friday by the Senate, extending the shutdown.
•Experts warn Ticktin’s push is part of a broader scheme to change voting rules and boost GOP chances in fall elections.

Meet Peter Ticktin, the 80-year-old Florida lawyer who moonlights as a Trump club member and 2020 election conspiracy sidekick. He’s campaigning wildly for an emergency executive order that would tear up decades of voting progress by nixing machine and mail-in voting — because why trust modern tech when you have rotary phones and taxidermy? Senate sneaked a DHS funding deal through overnight Friday, but Republican House leaders slammed the reject button, causing a shutdown that played like politics’es extended blooper reel. Experts see Ticktin’s moves as part of a clandestine plan to make voting more confusing than your grandma’s rotary phone manual—just in time for fall elections!

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Mockingbird News

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When your 80-year-old lawyer friend insists democracy needs a reboot but forgot that manual isn’t in the drawer. The machines might break, but Ticktin’s conspiracy won’t.

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Because nothing says 'future of voting' like an octogenarian wielding Trump ties and rejection slips from the Senate party.

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Peter Ticktin’s plan to kill machine & mail voting is as retro as typewriters competing with Face ID.

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