President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 31 directing the federal government to build a verified citizen voter list and restrict the U.S. Postal Service to sending mail-in ballots only to the voters on the list.
The order directs the Department of Homeland Security to compile a verified list of eligible citizens in each state using Social Security Administration records. The USPS would then be required to mail absentee ballots only to voters on that list, and ballots must arrive in secure envelopes with unique tracking barcodes. States that do not comply risk losing federal funds.
.@POTUS prepares to sign an Executive Order to deal with a number of issues on election integrity:
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the signing on X. Trump wrote on Truth Social last year that he would sign an executive order to "help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections."
"The president wants to make it easier for Americans to vote and harder for people to cheat in our elections," Leavitt said at a White House press briefing the following day.
The new order follows a similar push from Trump's March 2025 election integrity order, EO 14248, much of which was blocked by three federal courts. Courts struck down provisions requiring citizenship documentation for voter registration, restricting mail ballot grace periods in 15 states, and conditioning federal election funding on states' use of the federal voter registration form.
On the legislative track, the SAVE Act – which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote – passed the House 220-208 in April 2025, as Zeale News previously reported, but has stalled in the Senate.