News Brief | Trump issues order attempting to change rules for mail-in voting

||| FROM THE WASHINGTON POST |||

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday that purports to change rules for mail ballots even though the president has limited authority over elections.

Elections experts called the order legally questionable and noted that courts blocked the major provisions of an executive order on elections he signed last year.

Opponents agreed a challenge was all but certain.

The administration has also sued 29 states to try to get copies of their voter rolls, which include voters’ birth dates, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. Courts have blocked the administration from getting voter lists in three states and have not yet ruled in the others.

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