- United States
- Wash.
- Letter
Speak out now against Trump's executive order to seize federal control over who gets to vote. District Judge Indira Talwani has already blocked key parts of it, and a bipartisan coalition of 56 former judges is urging the Supreme Court to keep that injunction in place. Your voice matters here.
The Constitution gives states — not the president — the power to set voter eligibility and election rules. This executive order would hand the U.S. Postal Service authority to intercept and refuse to deliver mail ballots for anyone the federal government decides isn't eligible. USPS would roll this out "as soon as early to mid-August," weeks before states begin sending absentee ballots. Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg said it plainly: "There is no substantive evidence to back up the charges that our elections aren't accurate and certainly not that they're fraudulent." Millions of voters — including people with disabilities and those in rural areas — would be disenfranchised by errors in an untested system with no time to fix them.
This isn't a close call. Stand publicly against this order, support the states defending their constitutional authority, and make clear that Congress has not authorized these directives and will not allow them to stand.