Experts agree that Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting mail-in ballots will likely fail under court challenges due to the Constitution’s provisions mandating state governments as the ultimate authority over elections in their jurisdictions.
Trump signed an order Tuesday that would ban the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee or postal ballots to any voter who does not appear on a list of legal, documented citizens he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to collect with the help of the Social Security Administration.
