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Video: Trump Just Fundamentally Changed Mail-in-Voting With 1 Executive Order
It may have been with a stroke of his pen, but President Donald Trump may as well have taken a hatchet to mail-in voting fraudsters and schemes.
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday, entitled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” that looks to address one of Trump’s longstanding campaign promises to straighten out American elections.
“The right to vote in Federal elections is reserved exclusively for citizens of the United States under the Constitution and Federal law,” Trump explained in the executive order. “Federal statutes explicitly prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections and impose criminal penalties for violations.”
While the order covers a multitude of aspects, one of its biggest accomplishments is overhauling the way mail-in voting works.
Trump, in a bid to “ensure the faithful execution of Federal law, protect the integrity of the mail as a medium for transmitting Federal election ballots and establish uniform standards for mail-in or absentee ballot services........