Talking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday after her father-in-law’s historic victory about how to make the election process more secure and transparent, Lara Trump said that with Donald Trump in office, a GOP majority in the Senate and potentially in the House as well, the Republican Party finally has a chance to address the issues “99 percent plus of Americans agree on.” These include, according to Lara Trump and Hannity, proof of citizenship and voter IDs.
“We don’t have a perfect system right now,” she told Hannity. “We have to get through this system, we have to play the hand that we were dealt. You have election season now instead of election day, and a lot of nuance around the country that makes it very confusing and really concerning for a lot of people.”
“Maybe now it’s the time, once Donald Trump is inaugurated, we go forward and maybe we have something that passes so that we can have a blanket federal election process that every state abides by and we feel very good about it all across the country,” she suggested.
While the details of this potential change to the U.S. electoral process are thin, the suggestion of the RNC co-chair seems to confirm many experts’ fears that Donald Trump’s return to the White House might significantly transform American democracy. A “blanket federal election process” is likely referring to a desire to standardize procedures at the national level instead of letting every state choose its own process; this might include the homogenization of the deadlines for mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, and when votes are counted across the country.