BREAKING: Trump signs EO to crack down on mail-in voting
”We want to have honest voting in our country.”
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”We want to have honest voting in our country.”
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will crack down on mail-in voting. The move comes as the president has been pushing for tighter security on voting, including with the SAVE America Act in Congress.
"We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really a nation if you want to know the truth,” Trump said in the Oval Office after he signed the order on Tuesday afternoon.
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The order was first reported by the Daily Caller, and would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to make a list of verified US citizens who are eligible to vote in each state. The order will also make it so only those on the list will be able to send in absentee ballots.
Ballots will also have a more specific and secure envelope with an identifiable barcode. No less than 60 days before each federal election, states will be given their revised list of confirmed voters.
“Election integrity has always been a top priority for President Trump, and the American people sent him back to the White House because they overwhelmingly supported his commonsense election integrity agenda,” White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
“The President will do everything in his power to defend the safety and security of American elections and to ensure that only American citizens are voting in them. Congress should also expeditiously pass President Trump’s SAVE America Act to protect elections for generations to come," Jackson added.
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