- The defenders argue that millions would be deprived of their rights in order.
- The White House says effort to prevent foreigners from interfering.
- A new executive order that will probably draw legal challenges.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on Tuesday that would require voters to demonstrate that they are US citizens and try to prevent states from containing the tickets by mail received after the day of the elections.
The sweeping order would also seek to remove federal funds from the states that do not comply.
Trump has long questioned the electoral system of the United States and continues to falsely affirming that his loss of 2020 against Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of generalized fraud. The president and his Republican allies have also made statements without foundation about the generalized vote by non -citizens, which is illegal and rarely occurs.
Last year, the House of Representatives controlled by Republicans approved a bill that would prohibit non -citizens from registering to vote in federal elections, a practice that is already illegal. He did not approve the Senate, who was later controlled by Democrats.
The order of the White House seeks to achieve similar objectives. Voting rights groups argued that, like the Voting Elicer Law of the United States that did not become law, it would deprive voters, particularly colored persons, who do not have access to passports or other required identification.
“We have to straighten our elections,” Trump said Tuesday while signing the order in the White House. “This country is very sick due to elections, false elections and bad elections, we will straighten that in one way or another.”
The order is likely to draw legal challenges.
“This is a flagrant attack against democracy and an authoritarian power,” said Lisa Gilbert, co -president of the Public Citizen Defense Group.
In recent years, Republicans have tried to impose more voting restrictions, while Democrats have tried to facilitate vote supporting access to vote by mail and early voting opportunities.
The public citizen said that around 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and the investigation of the Brennan Center showed that 9 percent of US citizens who are eligible to vote, or 21.3 million people, do not have citizenship evidence “easily available.”
According to US law, the United States Secretary of State can unilaterally cancel passports if they determine that they were “illegally, fraudulently or erroneously obtained” or created through illegality or fraud.
The White House argued that Trump's order would prevent foreign citizens from interfering with US elections. According to the new directive, voters will ask a citizenship question about the federal voting form for the first time.
“Federal funds related to the elections will be conditioned to the states that comply with the integrity measures established by the Federal Law, including the requirement that the states use the registration form of national mail voters that will now require proof of citizenship,” said an informative sheet of the White House on the order.
The order criticized the policies that allow the tickets by mail and will be counted after the day of the elections. The order said that Trump's policy is “to demand that the votes be issued and received by the election date established in the law.”
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states together with Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Washington, DC, will tell the ballots that are killing on election day or before, regardless of when they arrive.
Trump's order also requires that the Secretary of National Security guarantee that states have access to systems that verify citizenship or migratory state of people registered to vote.
He also directs the Department of National Security and an administrator of the Efficient Department of the Government of Elon Musk to review the registration lists of states, using a summons if necessary, to ensure that they are consistent with federal requirements.
The Republican National Committee said Tuesday that he had requested public records of 48 states and Washington, DC, to verify how they maintain their voter registration lists.
“Voters have the right to know that their states properly keep the voter lists and act quickly to clean the voting registration lists eliminating the non -eligible voters,” said RNC President Michael Whatley, in a statement.
