Trump signs executive order limiting mail-in voting

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order cracking down on mail-in voting.

“We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really a nation if you want to know the truth,” Trump said in the Oval Office after signing the order.

The Daily Caller first reported that Trump would sign the order.

According to the Daily Caller, the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. DHS would undertake the effort with the Social Security Administration, the Daily Caller wrote, citing a White House fact sheet.

The U.S. Postal Service would then be required under the order to only send mail-in ballots to voters who appear on the list, according to the Daily Caller. Election authorities in each state typically send out mail ballots to voters, not the Postal Service.

Trump has long sought to restrict mail-in voting following his loss in the 2020 election to former President Joe Biden. He has repeatedly claimed, without providing evidence, that the election was stolen from him due to fraud in mail-in voting.

The order comes after months of pressure on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a measure that would require voters to provide photo identification and proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The U.S. House voted to approve the measure in February, and the Senate debated it this month without taking a vote.

Trump has told Republicans that they will lose the November midterm elections if they don’t pass the bill and crack down on mail-in voting.

Voting-rights advocates say Trump’s planned restrictions on voting would disenfranchise millions of Americans. The executive order is almost certain to be challenged in court, which could block it from being enforced in time for the midterms.

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