{"id":371,"date":"2026-06-09T19:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:04:03","slug":"trump-administration-swiftly-moves-ahead-on-plans-to-restrict-voting-by-mail-in-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration swiftly moves ahead on plans to restrict voting by mail in the states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow states to access federal citizenship data by June 30 and plans to monitor the flow of mail ballots for signs of voter fraud, according to a court document.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=369\">After nursing home crises, states target private equity\u2019s role<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid a series of lawsuits, President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is now moving to carry out a March 31\u00a0executive order restricting voting by mail ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and voting rights advocates\u00a0oppose the directive as unconstitutional election meddling by Trump and have sued to stop him. The president, who has long attacked mail ballots but votes by mail himself, says the additional rules will fight noncitizen voting, a rare phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo president has the authority to unilaterally rewrite election rules or dictate how states administer their elections,\u201d Marcia Johnson, chief of activation and justice at the League of Women Voters, said in a statement last week. The League of Women Voters filed one of at least five lawsuits challenging the order.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NC elections board will pursue citizenship checks on voter rolls as feds draw up new program<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zpskpRoysC\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"282\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" scrolling=\"no\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnewsline.com\/briefs\/nc-elections-board-will-pursue-citizenship-checks-on-voter-rolls-as-feds-draw-up-new-program\/embed\/#?secret=J7xgEXa0r0#?secret=zpskpRoysC\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNC elections board will pursue citizenship checks on voter rolls as feds draw up new program\u201d \u2014 NC Newsline\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Potential disruptions<\/h4>\n<p>The order could carry major consequences for the midterm elections. Any new restrictions on mail ballots would risk disrupting how tens of millions of voters cast their ballots. About 30% of voters cast mail ballots in 2024, according to data gathered by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.<\/p>\n<p>But despite several legal challenges, the order remains in effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., in late May\u00a0ruled against a request by Democratic groups to pause the order, finding that it was too soon to weigh in because federal officials hadn\u2019t taken enough action yet. A second judge in Massachusetts held a hearing last week, but didn\u2019t immediately issue a decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump Administration will continue fighting for the safety and security of American elections,\u201d White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement shortly after the D.C. judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>One portion of the order demands the postmaster general enact new restrictions on mailed ballots and not transmit ballots from states that refuse to provide the names of absentee voters. The U.S. Postal Service, despite its status as an independent corporation, has\u00a0put forward a proposal in line with the order to require states to submit lists of voters before mailing ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Homeland Security is responding to another part of the order that requires the creation of lists of voting-age citizens in every state, which the Trump administration calls \u201cstate citizenship lists.\u201d State election officials would receive the lists, which they could compare to their voter rolls in a search for noncitizen voters.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security\u2019s plans for the citizenship lists came into focus on June 5, when the U.S. Department of Justice filed a notice in federal court that briefly outlines the administration\u2019s plans. The\u00a0 a two-part effort by Homeland Security and its subsidiary agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to comply with the order.<\/p>\n<p>First, Homeland Security will implement a \u201cState Voter Roll Verification\u201d that allows state election officials to submit their voter rolls to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SAVE is a\u00a0powerful computer program that checks names against citizenship information held in a variety of government databases. It can flag registered voters as possible noncitizens, but faces criticism for incorrect identifications.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=367\">North Carolina set to nearly double remote charter academies next year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the past year, states have already had the option to upload their voter rolls into SAVE. Some Republican-led states, such as Indiana, Texas and Wyoming, have used the system, while Democratic states have declined. It\u2019s unclear how the State Voter Roll Verification would be different, if at all, from states\u2019 current SAVE access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services didn\u2019t respond to questions from States Newsroom.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Justice Department notice says Homeland Security will set up a registry for state election officials to securely access \u201ccitizenship-related data\u201d from USCIS, the Social Security Administration and the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notice, the \u201cunderlying data would remain in each agency\u2019s respective system.\u201d No other details were provided.<\/p>\n<p>The notice also outlines Homeland Security\u2019s intention to use the lists of voters that states provide to the Postal Service for investigations. It says DHS wants to \u201cintegrate\u201d data on those voters \u201cto monitor mail-in and absentee ballot flows, identify anomalies that may suggest voter fraud or misuse, and generate authorized investigative leads.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>California elections<\/h4>\n<p>The notice comes as Trump renews his attacks on mail-in voting. Last week he alleged, without evidence, voter fraud in California, which held primary elections last week. California relies heavily on mail ballots and often counts votes at a slow pace \u2014 meaning final results sometimes don\u2019t match election night vote totals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know why they\u2019re doing that? Because they\u2019re cheating on the election,\u201d Trump said in\u00a0an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the executive order already faces a slew of lawsuits, the NAACP on June 3\u00a0 in federal court seeking to specifically block the Postal Service\u2019s proposed regulations of mail ballots. The NAACP alleges the regulations violate a 2021 settlement agreement that requires timely delivery of election mail to all voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service has until Thursday to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The American Postal Workers Union in a statement on June 5 denounced the executive order, saying the Postal Service serves all Americans. It is \u201cnot a tool for politicians\u201d to pick which Americans receive which benefits, the union said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Executive Order is an unconstitutional attack on the millions of Americans who vote by mail,\u201d the union said, \u201cand another front in an ongoing assault on voting rights in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/northcarolinamovingjournal.com\/?p=365\">Amid solid job numbers, a North Carolina economist sees troubling headwinds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a series of lawsuits, President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is now moving to carry out a March 31 executive order restricting voting by mail ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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