The Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that would impose stricter requirements on mail-in voting across the United States, claiming the directive unlawfully interferes with states’ constitutional power to oversee elections.
The executive order, signed Tuesday, instructs the Trump administration to create a registry of verified U.S. citizens who are qualified to vote in every state. The directive also calls for using federal databases to assist state election administrators in confirming voter eligibility and mandates that absentee ballots only be mailed to individuals appearing on each state’s authorized mail-in voting roster.
When asked for a response, the White House had not provided comment by press time. Speaking Tuesday, Trump expressed confidence that legal challenges to his order would not succeed in court.
