https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-orderPresident Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to reshape American elections, signing an executive order that seeks to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state, and instructing the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified voters.Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he believes the order is legally "foolproof." But election experts said the order was unconstitutional, and voting rights advocates and Democratic state officials quickly pledged to sue to block the order from going into effect.A previous executive order on elections, signed about a year ago, has been blocked by federal judges who said the president lacked the constitutional authority to set voting policy.The Constitution says the "Times, Places and Manner" of federal elections are determined by individual states, with Congress able to enact changes."This Executive Order is a disgusting overreach from the federal government and shows how little the Trump Administration understands about election administration," Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state of Arizona, said in a statement Tuesday. "We will not let this order stand without a fight and will meet the federal government in court," he added.
Arizona is among more than two dozen states Trump's Department of Justice has sued over access to sensitive voter data.The Trump administration claims it needs the data to enforce states' voter list maintenance. Federal judges in three states have dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuits in those states.In another case, a DOJ official admitted in court last week that the department plans to share that voter data with the Department of Homeland Security, to run it through the so-called SAVE system to search for noncitizens.NPR has reported that some U.S. citizens have also been inaccurately flagged by SAVE.How the executive order seeks to change votingTrump has long railed — baselessly — about widespread illegal voting by noncitizens and fraud associated with mail ballots.The new executive order — which was first reported by The Daily Caller — takes aim at both.It instructs the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to "compile and transmit to the chief election official of each State a list of individuals confirmed to be United States citizens who will be above the age of 18 at the time of an upcoming Federal election and who maintain a residence in the subject State."The order then "requires the USPS to transmit ballots only to individuals enrolled on a State-specific Mail-in and Absentee Participation List, ensuring that only eligible absentee or mail-in voters receive absentee or mail-in ballots," according to a White House fact sheet.
Trump's executive order claims that "additional measures are necessary" to secure voting by mail, a form of voting he has used himself — including last week — but also falsely maligned for years. In the 2024 general election, nearly a third of all voters cast mail ballots.The Postal Service should also review the design of mail ballot envelopes to protect "the integrity of Federal elections," the order says.Collectively, the provisions would be a significant change to how mail ballot programs are currently administered in American elections, which are largely carried out by state and local officials."Our government's citizenship lists are incomplete and inaccurate. The United States Postal Service is overburdened and inadequate. This combines a car crash with a train wreck," the Brennan Center for Justice, which advocates for expanded voting access and sued to block Trump's 2025 election executive order, said in a statement.Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA, wrote on his blog that the order is likely unconstitutional. And regardless, he added, "the timing here makes this virtually impossible to implement in time for November's elections. … It seems highly unlikely any of this could be implemented for 2026, even if it were not blocked by courts."The order comes as Trump pressures Republicans in Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping election overhaul that would impose new voter identification and documentation requirements.That bill is stalled in the Senate due to Democratic opposition and the legislative filibuster.The Supreme Court is also expected to rule this year on whether Mississippi should be allowed to count mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received by election officials after Election Day.The legal challenge, which could have sweeping implications for mail voting nationwide, was filed by the Republican National Committee and Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
>>1502089>instructing the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified votersWeird, you'd think that someone who isn't hilariously retarded would order that printers create ballots only for verified voters. Or even less retarded, order states to verify that only registered voters are on the voter rollOr even LESS retarded, order states to verify a birth certificate and/or SSN as a requirement to register to vote. Meanwhile Competent Americans (Democrats) live in a properly run states where those checks already exist.
>>1502089This is so heinously, blatantly corrupt. The president is deciding who gets to vote.
>>1502096The point is to stop trucks delivering pallets of fake Democrat votes after hours like they did in 2020>>1502096Retarded jeet. It takes California precincts weeks to cheat their elections
1502098>The point is to stop trucks delivering pallets of fake Democrat votes after hours like they did in 2020Wow, and you're dumb enough to support Trump after he deliberately omitted that from his EO? Thanks for the two (You)'s
>>1502097>The president is deciding who gets to vote.You were fine when Biden did it.
>>1502107and don't forget when hunter's penis signed that executive order
DUMBASS IS PANICKING. IF HE WANTED TO RIG 2026 ELECTIONS HE NEEDED TO START ON DAY ONE.
>>1502113He's absolutely going to try to cancel the elections and stage a coup.
>>1502116Only an absolute retard would cancel elections. Elections are too useful as a tool of legitimizing rule. Save for monarchies like Saudi Arabia, even the most autocratic shitholes nowadays will have sham elections.
>>1502122Except he already staged a coup, so he doesn't are about legitimizing his rule, only staying in power.
>>1502122Even if the federal elections were canceled there would still be state and local elections on election day.
>>1502098>>1502107Aren't you tired of living in Sidney Powell's long ago disproved conspiracy theory?
>>1502122>an absolute retardWell that is what he is.
>>1502089classic accuse your opponent of doing what you’re doing yourself >muh rigged elections
>>1502157Yeah, that's why conservatives go around calling people mentally ill troons and faggots.
>>1502157Gaslight, Obstruct, Project.I wonder if the April Fools capcha will slow down the trump pedo shills.
>>1502162Tracks with just finding out Noem's husband likes to crossdress like a bimbo lmao
>>1502389but he's not stupid enough to think he's actually a real woman.
>>1502097Democracy can’t work if Trump does not have absolute authority. If we don’t let Trump decide, the Muslims will do another holocaust
>>1502389I mean, aside from this being a well established pattern, that every republican accusation is projection, people secure in their sexuality don't go around obessesing over other people's preferences. Grndr usage spikes when they congregate. They're just a bunch of self-hating closet cases.They're also deeply insecure about these feelings, which is why they're so aggressive. Bunch of pussies desperate to project masculinity.
>>1502503I don’t have a problem voting for someone I don’t know is gay but I won’t vote for someone who is gay
>>1502626Good policy.
>>1502162But most of you are...Especially you euro-fascist leftshits.
>>1502629They're fine all being faggots, they already know because they're meeting up in seedy hotels to fuck each other. They just don't want to be acknowledged as gay in public
>>1502629>Most people are gay. I think this is a reasonable thing to say. It's definitely not me! I'm certainly not projecting my latent homosexuality everywhere I look, explaining why I see gay shit all the time. Nope. Nosiree Bob. I haven't thought about hard throbbing cocks in like four seconds!
>>1502635>>Most peopleYou'd think there'd be more self reflection that the first thing any of the conservative shills have to do when defending their position is misrepresenting the argument
>>1502636Eh, half of them just repeat lies from their propaganda machine they'd know were lies if they spent 2 seconds looking into it.
>>1502635Democrats aren't even people though.
>>1502641Democrats aren't people in the same way you're not a massive faggot.
>>1502644How are Democrats people? Name a way. You literally can't
>>1502646get a real job esl shill
>>1502647>You literally can'tConcession accepted.
>>1502648i feel sorry for your mother
>>1502649I feel sorry your mother didn't abort you.
