On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take numerous actions intended “to protect the integrity of our election process.”
His order is a well-designed, comprehensive plan that will ensure that the federal government assists the states in conducting “free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion.”
This has been long needed and is a reversal of the decades of indifference, neglect, or downright interference in the election process by the federal government, particularly by the Obama and Biden administrations. They took every opportunity to attack commonsense election reform efforts by the states, like voter ID requirements, and to stymie efforts to improve the maintenance of accurate voter registration rolls.
Their overall goal, it seemed, was to make American elections as…
