Ensuring Election Integrity

Vote by Mail

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday regulating elections nationwide by establishing a list of voters eligible to vote by mail.

“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what has been going on,” Trump said.

“If you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”

According to the order—which is expected to spark legal challenges—only American citizens are eligible to vote by mail, with lists verified by the Homeland Security Department, in coordination with the Social Security Administration.

The U.S. Postal Service is ordered to only send ballots to individuals included on the lists, with unique bar codes applied to each envelope—one per voter—to facilitate tracking and audits.

The Order

Gavin Newsom is objecting already. Well, of course he is, as in California law, every registered voter gets a ballot in the mail whether they requested one or not. Vote-by-mail ballot must be mailed or dropped off at a secure drop box, drop-off location, polling place, vote center, or county elections office by the close of polls at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

California ballots mailed through USPS must be postmarked by Election Day and received by your county elections official no later than 7 days after Election Day and California even pays for the postage.

Ballots need to be received on or before Election day...that needs to be codified to end the craziness in California.