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Pres Trump's Election Executive Order: At Least One State is "Looking at a Paper Ballot Ele
• The Gateway PunditOn March 25th, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The Order outlined several requirements under federal law that must be upheld: ensuring only U.S. citizens can vote, compliance with the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 (VVSG), upholding the requirement of the Elections Assistance Commission's (EAC) certification of voting systems, and amending VVSG 2.0 to require a voter-verifiable ballot.
Expected legal challenges from Democrat Secretaries of State and non-governmental organizations have thus far netted mixed results. On April 24th, in the consolidated case League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President, US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly placed a temporary injunction on Sections 2(a) and 2(d), which requires citizenship proof in the national mail voter registration form and requires agencies to "assess citizenship prior to providing" a voter registration form to "enrollees of public assistance programs."