Election day EO signed

[angrychair]

(a) The Attorney General shall take all necessary action to enforce 2 U.S.C. 7 and 3 U.S.C. 1 against States that violate these provisions by including absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the final tabulation of votes for the appointment of Presidential electors and the election of members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

This will essentially disenfranchise millions of voters as few states can count all their votes by election day.

Don't believe this is constitutional and unlikely to stick

Full EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

Link to full

[hlthe2b]

1. Procedures are up to the states so definitely unconstitutional...

an already very exhausted and overworked Marc Elias will be on this, no doubt

[Bettie]

2. States decide their election laws

not the president...

[dweller]

3. Someone

Needs to take away his sharpie or crayon or whatever he’s using to sign this shit …



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[J_William_Ryan]

5. So much for "states' rights."

The Republican war on the right to vote continues.

[Igel]

6. The EO is just saying to enforce pre-existing law.

If everything's up to the states, then these are unconstitutional:

2 U.S.C. 7

§7. Time of election
The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter. (R.S. §25; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, §6, 18 Stat. 400 ; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, §2, 48 Stat. 879 .)

3 U.S.C. 1:

The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on election day, in accordance with the laws of the State enacted prior to election day.

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5233.)

I think Texas should vote on 9/11. It could have all of its ballots pretty much counted before the other 49 states officially go to the polls in November, and its electors appointed first.

Or maybe that bit is, after all, constitutional.

[rickyhall]

7. Voter's Rights Amendment