Trump Signs Order to Verify Mail-In Ballots Used by Eligible Voters
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening signed an executive order focused on election integrity, including a measure to ensure that mail-in ballots are sent to eligible voters and returned by them.
Trump signed the order in the Oval Office while flanked by White House staff secretary Will Scharf and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese first reported that Trump was set to sign the order.
.@POTUS signs an Executive Order ordering citizenship verification for federal elections and securing mail-in ballot procedures through the USPS https://t.co/8vCF20svLT pic.twitter.com/5xFJLvpKNR
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Scharf detailed the measures ahead of the signing.
“We’re going to take federal data, we’re going to ensure that each state’s election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are, allowing them to properly verify that everybody voting in their elections is legally able to vote,’ Scharf said of the first measure.
.@POTUS prepares to sign an Executive Order to deal with a number of issues on election integrity:
"We're going to ensure that each state's election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are…and then, it… pic.twitter.com/OuZFxSTmpG
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Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, in tandem with the Social Security Administration, is tasked with establishing “State Citizenship Lists” for each state. The lists will include U.S. citizens residing in that state who will be at least 18 at the time of the next federal election. (Read more from “Trump Signs Order to Verify Mail-In Ballots Used by Eligible Voters” HERE)
