Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots
Trump signed the order “to strengthen election integrity by ordering citizen verification.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that limits who can submit a mail-in ballot in elections.
Trump signed the order “to strengthen election integrity by ordering citizen verification.”
“The Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Social Security Administration, to compile and transmit to each State a State Citizenship List of confirmed U.S. citizens who will be 18 or older at the time of the next upcoming Federal election and reside in that State,” according to the fact sheet.
Mail-in ballots are not going anywhere.
It’s worth doing something to prevent fraud.
White House Staff Secretary Will Scarf said:
Mr. President, as you said, you have in front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity. As you’ve consistently identified, two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity in this country are one, inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various federal and state elections all over the country. Then secondarily, you’ve consistently identified that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud, people returning ballots who aren’t eligible, eligible to return ballots, ballots being sent to people who aren’t confirmed to be eligible voters.
So what this executive order is going to do is one, 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. And then it orders the Postmaster General, the US Postal Service, to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent to people who are eligible to vote, and then the ballots being returned are being properly returned by eligible voters only.
And we believe that combined the measures in this executive order will help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election system in the past aren’t repeated in future elections.
.@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
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2026
Before the signing, Marc Elias, an elections attorney for the Democratic Party, said he would sue.
“I don’t bluff, and I usually win,” claimed Elias.
I’m totes shaking in my boots, bro.
Trump predicted someone would likely challenge the executive order:
Okay, so that’s a big deal. Very proud of it, and I think I don’t know how it can be challenged. You’ll probably challenge it. You may find a rogue judge. You get a lot of rogue judges. Very bad, bad people, very bad judges. But that’s the only way that can be changed, and hopefully, well, we will appeal if it is but I don’t, I don’t see how anybody can challenge it.
.@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
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2026
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Insufficient. Mail=in ballots need to be banned unless they can be made 100% foolproof and it is unlikely they can be. Anyone who simps for mail=ins knows they can be abused and wants them abused.
One thing that can be done is so greatly increase the penalty for election fraud that no one in their right mind would ever attempt it. I’m thinking fines of 200k per incident and mandatory 20 years in jail with no chance of parole.
The president can’t do that.
Even Congress can only do it for congressional elections, not for presidential ones, let alone state and local ones.
Sure, this is just politics, and won’t actually fix the problem, but:
1. It elevates the visibility of the problem and forces discussion
2. It pisses off the Democrats and forces them to expend resources on this subject, at the expense of other things.
I’m thinking of making it a hanging offense.
Not saying he should.
I have no problem with absentee ballots as long as there is some mechanism to guarantee their validity and the validity of the voter. Mail-in ballots doesn’t,
Yeah. I agree with Trump’s point but elections are Congress’s purview not the Executive Branch.
If the order actually did what the headline implies, and as the Rapid Response 47 tweet says, “ordering citizenship verification for federal elections”, then Elias would probably sue and win. The president has no authority to order the states to do that.
But that doesn’t seem to be what he’s doing. It appears that he’s just ordering his own government, which of course is under his authority, to generate lists of people in each state who, as far as the federal government knows, are potentially eligible to vote, and to send the lists to each state. It’s then up to the state to verify its rolls against the list, flag anyone who doesn’t appear on it, and investigate whether that person should be on the roll.
If a state chooses not to do so there might be no legal consequences but it will look very bad. It will be exposed as a state that invites and welcomes fraud, and will not be able to make any excuses. You were given a list, how could you refuse to use it? The Republicans could campaign on that.
And I don’t see how Elias or anyone else could sue. How can it be unlawful for the president to give a state vital information that it doesn’t have? He’s not making it do anything, he’s just making it very embarrassing for it not to.
Likewise whatever measures the post office can take would seem to all be squarely under the president’s authority, or at least so I would think. The post office doesn’t have to deliver ballots it believes to be fraudulent, does it? So on what grounds could Elias sue?
The usual suspects will just claim that the lists are purging a bunch of valid voters and disenfranchising whatever grievance flavors of the week they come up with. That will be their counter to not using it.
“It will be exposed as a state that invites and welcomes fraud“
Means nothing to democrats. They know the MSM will spin it for them, they know Pam will do nothing.
Look at MN. Massive fraud exposed. Walz, Ellison, and Fried, all free as birds and still shooting off their mouths attacking law enforcement.
I’m not sure the good of this outweighs the tactical error Trump is making.
There is a certain baseline percentage of unavoidable entropic error in any nationally sized list of identity information. Trump has just sent the states a comprehensive list with an entirely different error set. Whether or not the error set is larger or smaller than the one that state already has is an interesting question, but it most assuredly will be a different set. And now Trump has set up the federal government to take the blame for those errors.
This. A state that wants to do this honestly can’t just automatically purge anyone who’s not on the federal list. It must flag those people and investigate them to determine whether their absence from the federal list is a mistake, and only then purge them. Democrat states will of course claim that this can’t be done, or that Republican states aren’t doing it, or that the president is demanding that they not do it.
Yep. Send the list and even at 99.5% accuracy it still needs some work before implementation. It does ID potential/likely ineligible voters. Combined with voter registration list maintenance requirements reluctant States have less room to argue.
Potentially (if we get granular district/precinct data) it also gives election observers ready made challenges to raise for ballots cast by these potentially/likely ineligible voters. Add SSA death data and the postal change of address info to the tool box for challenges and there’s a higher hurdle for shenanigans of having thousands of ineligible but active voter registrations for someone to use to cast ballots.
Here is a link to the full text of the EO:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/
Not mentioned in the article above, there’s a whole section ordering the USPS to only deliver ballots mailed by people that are on the list of eligible voters. Also requires the States to inform USPS 60 days in advance of everyone they intend to send a mail in ballot to.
This is just one small part of it:
“Proposed provisions specifying that, no fewer than 90 days prior to a Federal election, any State may choose to notify the USPS if it intends to allow for mail-in or absentee ballots to be transmitted by the USPS. As part of that notification, any notifying State should further indicate whether it intends to submit to the USPS, no fewer than 60 days before the election, a list of voters eligible to vote in a Federal election in such State to whom the State intends to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot to be transmitted via the USPS.”
As noted above, the President can issue orders to federal bureaucracies, but ordering the States by EO usually doesn’t pass muster.
Much of what he is ordering the USPS will likely hold up, but some parts might fall victim to Herr Elias.
Have to give this administration credit though: They’ve known all along that 100% of their EO’s would face legal challenges, and they’ve been very careful about how they’ve written them. Contrary to Mark Elias’ claims above, his success rate against Trump 47 EO’s has been abysmal.
The sad parts of this, and there are many, is that we are – have become – increasingly a nation of schemers, chiselers, outright cheats, thieves, liars, grim faced finger wagging moralistic scolds, incompetent bumblers, and folks who “just know what’s right.”
They emerge unashamedly, disaster after disaster, trumpeting superior insight, knowledge, wisdom, and sensitivity to justify the absurd. Thousands of houses burn to the ground in full view of the entire world, many of them unnecessarily because water pipes are empty. On an island a thousand miles away, people die as their houses burn down because “officials” have blocked their escape routes. (Almost none of any of these houses are even beginning to be rebuilt because of the actions of the same people.)
Tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer’s money are stolen under the watchful eyes of regulators, investigators, and government officials all of whom are employed for the express purpose of preventing the theft. Spending and construction continue on railroads to nowhere. The list goes on, and on, and on.
Laughably, appropriately symbolic, it’s all conducted in the full light of day by a straight faced “journalist” who, while standing in front of a row of burning buildings, tells us we’re seeing a “mostly peaceful demonstration.”
Every single one of us knows whether he or she is entitled to vote, when, where, and how, to do it. Every. Single. One. The final laugh on us? We’re going to let the post office work on the fix.
Sheesh.
“They emerge unashamedly, disaster after disaster, trumpeting superior insight, knowledge, wisdom, and sensitivity to justify the absurd.”
My standard copypasta on just one aspect of this phenomenon:
F the “experts.”
Nanzi Pelosi said the GOP will try to “creep into technology” to rig the upcoming election. Wrong! The GOP is going to creep into the USPS and the Democrats will burrow into tech to rig the election. Nanzi just leaked it. LOL.
Given the Jesse Morgan whistleblower claims, relying on the USPS to “fortify” elections wouldn’t be much wiser than relying on the FBI to “fortify” the treatment of classified national security information.
trump signs many EO knowing that they will probably fail
but then it puts the future efforts of EO from the left in the cross hairs
again…do away with with the EO
it was wrong form day one as was the post office
and now we reap its terror
On what planet?
The EO’s Trump has signed this past year were all designed to survive the legal challenges that they knew for an absolute fact would be coming.
And, virtually all of them survived entirely intact.
They’ve been incredibly careful with this. Far more so than any previous administration.
The states are supposed to periodically purge their voter lists of the dead, people who have moved out of state, felons in some states, etc…. The democrats don’t even want to do that and dig in their heels on any suggestion of how to improve election validity, They want to cheat and I believe they do cheat, They also don’t want to investigate allegations of cheating. No surprise.
Does this affect election outcome? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The worse case of obvious cheating was in Minnesota when new ballots kept being discovered including in the back of someone’s car until that unfunny troglodyte Franken was elected Senator.
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