Trump’s logo order seeks orders to make major reforms to the U.S. elections – how does it affect the polling process? |World News
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to conduct an overhaul election in the United States. The executive order requires documentary evidence of citizenship to register for votes in federal elections and requires all votes to be received by Election Day.
According to the news agency AP, the order said Washington failed to “enforce basic and necessary election protections” and called on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to obtain federal funds from states where election officials do not comply.
Trump’s latest move is likely to face criticism and challenges as states have broad powers to formulate their own electoral rules, consistent with his long history of the election process.
The U.S. president often claims elections are manipulated, even before the results are known, and has fought certain voting methods since the 2020 election was given to Democrat Joe Biden, and falsely blamed it on widespread fraud. He focused on mail voting in particular, arguing that there is no evidence that it is unsafe, and his position on the issue shifted his position given his popularity among voters, including the Republican Party.
Despite fraud, it is rare, limited in scope and prosecuted. The documentary of the order proves the signal that the president has not waited for Congressional Republicans to pass its longtime U.S. Guarantee U.S. Voter Qualification Act, or the Save Act, which aims to do the same.
Republicans have defended the measure to restore public confidence in the election. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections and can lead to felony crimes and deportation. Voting rights groups expressed concerns that the demand deprives people of their rights.
The Associated Press reported that an estimated 9% of citizens of voting age (or 21.3 million) do not have any evidence of citizenship proof, citing data from the 2023 report by the Brennan Justice Center and other groups.
There are also concerns that married women whose names have changed will have trouble trying to register because their birth certificate lists their maiden name. Similar cases have occurred in recent town elections in New Hampshire, which have a new state law that requires voting proof of citizenship.
Trump’s order directs federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Bureau and the State Department to share federal data with election officials that can help them identify non-citizens in their volumes.
It also said that in states that do not share information about suspicious election crimes with the federal government, the attorney general should “prioritize the enforcement of the federal election integrity law.” The order aims to “vote” to vote before Election Day and says federal funds should be conditional on state compliance. Currently, under the orders of the state assembly, the constitution provides for the country’s election mandate, so Trump’s orders may face legal challenges.
Although Congress has the right to regulate voting rights and does so in order to pass laws like the Voting Rights Act, the Constitution clearly states that states have the primary power to set “times, places, and ways” for elections.
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