President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to make it harder to cast mail-in ballots, escalating his long-running campaign against a practice used by millions of Americans.
The order seeks to ensure that state election officials have lists of eligible voters, according to White House staff secretary Will Scharf, and it directs the Postmaster General to take steps to verify that ballots are being sent to and returned by those voters.
Trump’s unilateral action comes as the election bill he’s lobbied for — the SAVE America Act — has stalled in the Senate amid the threat of ...
