President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at giving him more control over federal elections, stirring debate ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. The order is a direct response to his long-standing complaints about mail-in voting, which he often calls “mail-in cheating.” This comes despite Trump, his wife Melania, and their 20-year-old son Barron all voting by mail in a Florida special election just last week.
The order is designed to create verified voter lists. The Department of Homeland Security will compile these lists using federal citizenship and naturalization records, Social Security records, and other federal databases, then send them to states to update their own voter rolls. The order also instructs the U.S. Postal Service to only send mail-in ballots to people whose names appear on a state-provided list of eligible voters, according to The Daily Beast.
