President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order requiring voter identification for every voter with no exceptions and to end most mail-in voting. He repeated calls to end electronic voting machines and to require paper ballots and hand counts. The moves follow his assertions that his 2020 loss was due to widespread fraud and Republican claims of illegal non-citizen voting. In March, he signed an order requiring proof of citizenship and timely ballot receipt, but a judge blocked parts of that order, citing constitutional authority given to states and Congress.
Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!
Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military, he added.
The announcement comes as Trump seeks to overhaul the electoral system in the US over false claims that his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud. The president and his Republican allies also have made baseless claims about widespread voting by non-citizens, which is illegal and rarely occurs. For years, he has called for the end of electronic voting machines, pushing instead for the use of paper ballots and hand counts, a process that election officials say is time-consuming, costly and far less accurate than machine counting.
Collection
[
|
...
]