New York – President Donald Trump On Tuesday, he signed a wide -ranging executive campaign to review the US elections, including the requirements Documentary evidence of citizenship register in voting in federal elections and demanding that all voting cards be picked up on the day of elections.
The Order says that the US has failed to “enforce the basic and necessary protection of elections” and calls you to cooperate with federal agencies to share voters and prosecute election crimes. This threatens that he draws federal funds from states in which electoral officials are not compatible.
The transfer, which will probably face brisk challenges, because the states have wide rights to establish their own electoral rules, is in line with Trump Long story handrails against election processes. Often election claims are falsifiedeven Before the results are known, And since then he has been conducting battles with some voting methods lost Elections in 2020 Democrat Joe Biden AND He faded it falsely About widespread fraud.
Trump has focused especially on post votingArguing without evidence that it is uncertain and invites a fraud, even when he changed his position in this matter, taking into account his popularity among voters, including Republicans. While there is a scam, It’s scarceLimited scope and is prosecuted.
Documentary evidence from the requirement of the citizenship of the Order signals that the president is not waiting for the Republicans of the Congress to pass the expected long Secure American Voter Act ActOr Save Act, which was to do the same.
Republicans defended this measure if necessary to restore public trust to elections. Voting in federal elections by non -citizens is already illegal and may result in accusations of crime and deportation.
The groups of voice rights expressed fear that the requirement could get rid of people. It is estimated that 9% of US citizens, i.e. 21.3 million people, do not have easily available evidence of citizenship, in accordance with the Brennan Center for Justice report and other groups in 2023.
There are also fears that married women who changed their names encounter trouble while trying to register because their birth certificates mention their maiden names. Such hiccups happened In the last city elections in New Hampshire, which has a up-to-date state law requiring evidence of citizenship to register for voting.
The Order of Trump manages federal agencies, including the Internal Security Department, the Social Security Administration and the Department of State to share with federal data with electoral officials, which could assist them identify the non -utitis during their installments.
He also says that the Prosecutor General should “prioritize the enforcement of federal provisions regarding the integrity of elections” in the US that do not share information about suspicious election crimes with the federal government.
The order aims to require that voting is “planted and adopted” on the day of elections and claims that federal funds should depend on state compliance. Currently 18 states and Puerto Rico take the voting card by post after election day According to the National Legislative State Conference, if they are stamped or earlier.
The Trump’s Order will probably face legal challenges, taking into account that the constitution gives power to elections to states. While Congress is entitled to regulate voting – and he did it to adopt such provisions as the Act on voice rights – the Constitution explains that the states have the basic power to determine “times, places and method” of elections.
The Democratic Secretary of State in Colorado, Jena Griswold, called the Order a “unlawful” weapon of the federal government and said that Trump “was trying to make the voting voting to vote.”
Democratic representative of Joe Morelle from New York, a member of the home committee ranking, which supervises the election, said that the order “is not only wrong – he is immoral and illegal.”
At least one democratic lawyer threatened legal proceedings on Tuesday. Marc Elias, who was the object of Trump’s anger, said in a post on social media: “It will not be.
Justin Levitt, an expert of constitutional right and former senior adviser to the White House policy during Biden administration, the executive department has an authority in the election. He said that some federal agencies provide electoral support, including the US Election Assistance Committee, which distributes federal money for a subsidy to the states and runs a voluntary certification program for voting systems. The US Cybernetic Security Agency and US infrastructure helps electoral officials to protect their systems.
Former president of Biden issued an executive order in 2021. managing federal agencies to take steps to augment the registration of voters that attracted Republican complaints who called it a federal cross. Trump repealed this order.
The Trump’s Order calls on the electoral aid committee to change the guidelines for the voting system to protect the election integrity, including guidelines that voting systems should not use voting that uses the bar code or QR in the process of counting votes. It was found that the Commission should condition the funds that distributes in the United States to these new guidelines.
Virtually all personal voters in Georgia, as well as voters in several other states, use voting machines with a large touch screen to record their votes. Then the machines print paper voting with a man’s reading summary of the choice of voter and QR code, a type of bar code that is read by the scanner to count the voices.
It is not entirely clear how the executive order will affect Georgia and other jurisdictions that use these machines. Representatives of the Secretary of State Brad Raffesperger did not answer immediately on Tuesday evening with comments. Raffansperger issued a statement to Trump for the executive order, calling him “the great first step to the reform of election integrity throughout the country.”
Rep. Bryan Steil from Wisconsin, chairman of the house committee, who supervises the election, said that the order is “welcoming the action to secure our choices and prevent foreign influence.”
Mike Lindell, Trump’s ally, who spreads electoral conspiracies and who wants to prohibit voting systems in favor of manual voting cards, fundraisings on Tuesday, speaking in an e-mail, will fix our “infirmed choices”.
The executive ordinance of Trump appears as a Republican National Committee he made a huge effort to examine the list of registration of voters throughout the country. This week, the Committee sent applications for public registers asking for documents related to the maintenance of the list of voters in 48 states and Washington, claiming that society should know how countries are removed by non-qualifying people from the election kick, including the dead and non-fancy.
Trump referred to the election fraud, signing the order Tuesday, saying: “It will end, I hope.” He added that more election activities would be taken in the coming weeks.
