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Rachel Leingang

Federal judge blocks Trump effort to make voters show proof of citizenship

a person walks between voting booths
A voter prepares to fill out a ballot on the primaries voting day, in New York, on Tuesday. Photograph: Olga Fedorova/EPA

A US federal court blocked Donald Trump’s attempt to regulate elections via executive order, a win for democracy advocates who have fought back against the US president’s push to take power over voting.

Trump issued an executive order on elections, including a documentary proof of citizenship requirement that would have necessitated that people show passports, birth certificates or other documentation when they registered to vote, or changed their registration.

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