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Trump signs executive order aiming to restrict mail-in voting, a move that's likely to face legal challenges
CBS News ^ | 3/31/2026 | Aaron Navarro, Kathryn Watson

Posted on 03/31/2026 3:37:07 PM PDT by VanShuyten

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring states to impose stricter mail-in voting rules and directing his administration to create a list of confirmed U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state.

The additional requirements, made without any action by Congress, are all but certain to face challenges in the courts. It's not clear whether or how the order will affect the midterm primary elections, which are already underway in many states.

"The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary," the president said in the Oval Office ahead of the signing. He said requiring voters to show identification and proof of citizenship will be issues for another time.

The order requires the newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to create a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state, using data from the Social Security Administration, a White House official told CBS News. It also says the U.S. Postal Service may only send absentee ballots to people on each state's federally prepared approved mail-in ballot list. There will be one envelope per ballot.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheating; mail; mailin; mailinballots; rigging

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I won’t be surprised if some judge enjoins this order before I go to bed tonight.
1 posted on 03/31/2026 3:37:07 PM PDT by VanShuyten
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To: VanShuyten

Legal challenges? Or challenges by his usual obstructionists?


2 posted on 03/31/2026 3:41:48 PM PDT by stanne
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To: VanShuyten

Wait, wait, wait. I thought the Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about this issue. Well, maybe just the late arriving ballots.

I’m a lot more concerned about ballot drop boxes than mail-in ballots.


3 posted on 03/31/2026 3:42:43 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: VanShuyten

Obviously the EO is unenforceable but the action highlights the issue and creates a bit of chaos and disruption as Democrats will have to expend resources to have it enjoined.


4 posted on 03/31/2026 3:45:42 PM PDT by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please)
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To: VanShuyten

Just a mere reminder about how screwed we are.


5 posted on 03/31/2026 3:57:41 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: VanShuyten

Please force Colorado to go back to in person voting!


6 posted on 03/31/2026 3:58:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: VanShuyten

The past 15 months never mention the FEC/HAVA. The FEC
Federal Election Commission has significant power over elections and is at the root of most voting problems... due primarily to the way it controls money “given” to state and local election boards if the local boards do what the FEC/HAVA pays them to do.

What relation does Trump have to FEC/HAVA?
Why is it never mentioned in stories like this?


7 posted on 03/31/2026 4:01:05 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: VanShuyten
Enforce the existing laws. Ballot harvesting under CRM 500-999 940. 18 U.S.C. Section 1341—Elements of Mail Fraud "There are two elements in mail fraud: (1) having devised or intending to devise a scheme to defraud (or to perform specified fraudulent acts), and (2) use of the mail for the purpose of executing, or attempting to execute, the scheme (or specified fraudulent acts)." Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705, 721 n. 10 (1989); see also Pereira v. United States, 347 U.S. 1, 8 (1954) ("The elements of the offense of mail fraud under . . . § 1341 are (1) a scheme to defraud, and (2) the mailing of a letter, etc., for the purpose of executing the scheme."); Laura A. Eilers & Harvey B. Silikovitz, Mail and Wire Fraud, 31 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 703, 704 (1994) (cases cited).

Five year sentence for each count. (Each ballot is one count)

8 posted on 03/31/2026 4:03:25 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: VanShuyten
Trump signs executive order aiming to restrict mail-in voting, a move that's likely to face legal challenges.

Is Vegas giving odds on 'how many hours after signing the EO' will a TDS judge impose an injunction? I'd guess w/in 24 hours.

9 posted on 03/31/2026 4:06:37 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: VanShuyten

The only question is, will it be an Obama judge or a Biden judge?


10 posted on 03/31/2026 4:11:17 PM PDT by roving
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To: VanShuyten

Here’s the White House video

Summary: the USPS will only deliver ballots to legal voters.

And the Feds will supply the list of legal voters.

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2039099044434243824


11 posted on 03/31/2026 4:21:14 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (You’ve not seen the darkness in the hearts of men who realize no one is coming to save them.)
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To: VanShuyten

See BS


12 posted on 03/31/2026 4:26:44 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: libertylover

Ballot drop boxes should be at the polling places ONLY with a camera showing the drop. But before you drop it, it has to be time stamped which is an easy mechanics/electronics combo.


13 posted on 03/31/2026 5:09:42 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: VanShuyten

That’s all we have here in WA, it’s all by mail.


14 posted on 03/31/2026 5:10:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: libertylover
I think mail in ballots will be limited to "election day"...and no later...no matter the postmark...

Military ballots have to be treated a little differently should circumstances arise. BUT they too should be time stamped when let and when they arrive.

15 posted on 03/31/2026 5:12:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: JZelle

Proof of how screwed we are.

Every state must be examined for voter fraud; EVERY state.

California voter fraud FYI

Pakistanis Who Have Never Been to US Are Voting in California Elections from Inside Pakistan

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/pakistanis-who-have-never-been-us-are-voting/

San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Captain says voting records show people outside of the country, in Pakistan, are allowed to vote in the California elections.

The Sheriff’s Captain revealed this during a press conference in Sept 2025.


16 posted on 03/31/2026 5:39:50 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: VanShuyten

As he should. As good as Trump’s intentions are such an action is not within his authority as president.


17 posted on 03/31/2026 6:08:58 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: stanne

JUST IN: Gavin Newsom’s California is SUING President Trump over his executive order ensuring only citizens vote by mail, and that mail-in ballots are secure

“We’re challenging it. See you in court.”


18 posted on 03/31/2026 6:09:24 PM PDT by CFW
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To: stanne

Legal ones. And Trump will lose.


19 posted on 03/31/2026 6:09:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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