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The White House released a fact sheet in March on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to protect “the integrity of American elections.”
Trump’s order first focuses on his plans to restore trust in American elections by strengthening voter ID verifications, while all-out banning foreign nations from interfering in U.S. elections. States must comply with federal election law in order to receive election-related funds, including the use of “national mail voter registration form[s] that will now require proof of citizenship.”
States will be required to provide a voter-verifiable paper ballot record and “and not using ballots in which the counted vote is contained within a barcode or QR code.” Those states that do not comply will “face prioritized Federal enforcement of election integrity laws and loss of funding given their unwillingness to police fraud.”
Finally, Trump’s Order overturns former President Joe Biden’s E.O. 14019, “which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.”
Safety & Security
In comparing U.S. elections to other countries, such as Canada, Brazil, India, Germany, Denmark, and even Cuba, the Order notes that there are plenty of practical measures in place globally to allow for free and fair elections, “unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion.”
“We’re going to fix our elections so that our elections are going to be honorable and honest and people leave and they know their vote is counted. We are going to have free and fair elections. And ideally, we go to paper ballots, same-day voting, proof of citizenship, very big, and voter ID, very simple,” Trump said in the fact sheet. “We will secure our elections, and they will be secure once and for all.”
Role of the Attorney General:
According to the fact sheet:
– The Attorney General will fully enforce the voter-list maintenance requirements of the
National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act.
– Given clear Federal law setting a single Election Day deadline, the Attorney General shall
take appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in
Federal elections. Federal election funding will be conditioned on compliance.
– The Attorney General will prioritize enforcement of laws prohibiting foreign nationals
from contributing to or donating in U.S. elections.
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