Since 2020, Donald Trump has been making an insistence that his fight was the result of scam. Trump signed a comprehensive executive order on Tuesday that addresses his concerns about the justice of American votes.
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The Election Assistance Commission ( EAC ), an independent body with four commissioners appointed by the president, is mandated by the order to require potential voters to provide proof of citizenship before they can register to cast ballot in federal elections. Additionally, the purchase instructs local or state authorities to check the information.  ,
This order’s legality is a critical question. Individual states are responsible for voting laws, and Trump has no authority to dictate how the state run their elections. Additionally, the EAC is a self-contained entity that is presumably delegated to professional control.
The judges will undoubtedly resolve the issues and decide whether or not the attempt is valid.  ,
According to Rick Hasen, a professor of political science and chairman of the University of California’s Safeguarding Democracy Project,” This executive order is essential for what it attempts to do in terms of requiring citizens to provide proof of membership when registering to vote,” but it is even more crucial for what it means for National power. Trump is attempting to assert his authority over a free and impartial body that Congress established to assist states in organizing elections.
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The section devoted to ballots that arrive on election day is another important component of the order.
Trump’s order claims that federal law mandates that all states must reject ballots received before Election Day and that the Justice Department must “take all necessary action to enforce” the requirement. The move appeared to be specifically targeted at Alaska’s California-based mail-in-heavy states.
States have a lot of latitude to run elections differently across the country, but none of them permit votes to be cast after Election Day. Some accept absentee ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, while many others demand that election officials have them in hand by the time the polls close. For instance, a ballot in Florida must be delivered by 7 p.m. on Election Day, while in California, a ballot must be delivered postmarked on Election Day but can arrive up to 7 days later.
The “received by” versus “postmarked” argument has drawn a number of federal court cases, but federal law has not specifically forbid states from allowing late-arriving, but timely postmarked, ballots.
” Electoral fraud. You’ve probably heard of it. We’ll hopefully come to an end to it. At least this will help a lot in getting it to end,” Trump said at the signing at the White House, adding,” We got to straighten out our elections.”
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There is a lot of doubt about whether Trump can direct the EAC to do anything, Hasen said, putting the substance aside. ” I believe the answer is no,” she said. However, a court might put this to the test.
Additionally, is it uncertain whether the EAC will vote to follow Trump’s orders. The majority of what Trump’s executive order does, according to Justin Levitt, an election lawyer who also served as a voting rights adviser, is not lawful.
” I don’t believe there will be three votes to carry out what the president allegedly needs,” he continued.
Trump’s short-circuiting of the states ‘ closely held prerogatives regarding the vote will not go well in blue states, and there will be some resentment in red states.  ,
Expect numerous court challenges to this executive order’s specific aspects.
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