President Trump has, since the 2016 election and especially after the 2020 election, expressed grave concern about the integrity of American elections. (In that, he has a lot of company.) During the 2024 campaign, he spoke on the matter regularly, vowing to restore the public’s faith in our elections.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” aimed at doing precisely that. The Purpose and Policy statement reads in part:
Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing. India and Brazil, for example, are tying voter identification to a biometric database, while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship….
