President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Tuesday to revise the elections in the United States. The new prescription obliges people to show their American citizenship to register to vote in the federal elections. He also demanded that all the ballots be received on the day of the ballot.
Asset Referenced the electoral fraud while he signed the order on Tuesday, saying: “It will end, hope it.” He added that more electoral measures would be taken in the coming weeks, the Associated Press reported.
What the order says
THE executive decree Signed by Donald Trump read UNITED STATES has not properly applied the federal electoral requirements which, for example, prohibit states to count the ballots received after the day of the ballot or prohibited non-citizens from registering for the vote. “”
The ordinance indicates that the United States has failed “to apply the protections of the basic and necessary elections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share the lists of voters and continue the electoral crimes. He threatens to draw federal funding from the states where electoral officials do not comply.
What do criticism say?
The voting rights groups would have expressed their concern about the priority of people. A 2023 report by Brennan Center for Justice and other groups said that around 9% of American citizens of the voting age, or 21.3 million people, have no evidence of easily available citizenship.
It is also feared that married women who have changed their names encounter problems when they try to register because their birth certificates list their young girl names.
Legal challenges
Trump’s order is likely to deal with judicial disputes, since the Constitution gives authority over the elections to the States.
While Congress has the power to regulate the vote – and did so to adopt laws such as the law on voting rights – the Constitution clearly indicates that the states have the essential power to define the “time, places and ways” for the elections.
The Secretary of State Democratic State of Colorado, Jena Griswold, described the order of an “illegal” weapon of the federal government and said that Trump “was trying to make voters more difficult to retaliate against the ballot box”.
Meanwhile, Democratic representative Joe Morelle from New York said that the executive decree “was not only wrong – he is immoral and illegal”.
“Executive power has a certain authority over the elections,” said Justin Levitt “, an expert in constitutional law and former main political advisor to the White House during the Biden administration was cited by the Associated Press as said.
He said some federal agencies provide electoral support, including the United States. The election assistance committee, which distributes federal money to states to states and manages a voluntary certification program for voting systems.
The American Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Agency helps electoral officials to protect their systems.
Trump’s order calls on the election assistance commission to modify the voting system guidelines to protect the integrity of the elections, including the advice according to which voting systems should not use a voting bulletin that uses a barcode or QR code in the voting count process. He said the Commission should condition the funding it distributes to the States on these new directives.
