Trump signs executive order to crack down on mail-in voting | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that seeks to task the federal government – through the US Postal Service – with determining who receives a mail ballot. The executive order is Trump’s latest attempt to unilaterally shape how elections are run. It comes as legislation he’s championed requiring new citizenship verification measures to register to vote has floundered in the Senate, and as courts have pushed back on other aggressive attempts by the administration to inject itself in the voting process – a job the Constitution largely gives to the states. “It’s about voter integrity, we want to have honest voting in our country because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have really a nation,” Trump said after signing the order in the Oval Office. Election experts told CNN the order is likely to be blocked in court, and that it would trample over the procedures set by states for absentee voting. Voter advocates and state election chiefs have already signaled they plan to sue over the directive. The order directs the Department of Homeland Security, with the assistance of the Social Security Administration, to use various federal databa