redstate.com By Ward Clark
On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump signed an executive order clamping down on election practices around mail-in and absentee ballots. The measure includes provisions that have been debated as part of the SAVE America Act. A Daily Caller exclusive story by Reagan Reese has details.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday cracking down on mail-in voting across the country, the Daily Caller learned first.
The executive order will require the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state with the Social Security Administration’s help, according to a fact sheet shared with the Caller. The presidential action will also require that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) only send absentee ballots to those on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list. Ballots will now have specific secure envelopes, with unique barcodes for tracking, the order mandates.
States will be provided with their revised list of confirmed voters no less than 60 days before each federal election under the order.
The measure is sure to draw a legal challenge. The Constitution gives the states wide latitude in the conduct of elections and allows Congress to set overarching rules; there is no constitutional provision for the executive branch to make such rules. Article 1, Section 4 is the appropriate section in the Constitution; it states, in part:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
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