With Congress heading out for Spring Break, Donald Trump has once again taken matters into his own little hands and is in open rebellion against the Constitution and most of the country. His latest executive order on elections is yet another attempt to undermine free, fair, and accessible elections in this country.
Similar to the March 2025 election EO that federal courts have largely blocked from implementation, Trump repeats debunked lies about non-citizen voting and mail ballots. Trump and his allies know that citizenship verification already happens.
Nothing in this executive order concerns safety, security, or ensuring compliance with the law. It is a heavy-handed attempt to circumvent existing laws and processes. Everything Trump has tried to do to snatch electoral power has failed.
So now he wants to control not only how people vote, with severe limitations on mail ballots, but the system that verifies our very eligibility. Voter eligibility, list maintenance, and voter registration are all within the purview of the individual states.
And part of their national verification system has already been proven to have errors, including incorrectly flagging otherwise eligible voters as non-citizens.
The National Voting Rights Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 both establish federal minimums for election administration. Trump’s mandate for a centralized voter list would circumvent the protections in both laws.
His new election EO would also bypass most states that have refused to hand over our full, unredacted voter rolls. Since last year, the Trump administration has sued 30 states to force compliance.
Source: Trump’s Election Order Is A Sign Of Open Rebellion Against The Country
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