U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order he signed during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House with (left to right) Chief of Staff Susie Wiles; Sergio Gor, assistant to President Donald Trump and director of the Presidential Personnel Office; and Charles Kushner, nominee for U.S. Ambassador to France, on March 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee)
The suit takes grievances about mail-in ballot receipt deadlines, the "President's own design preferences" on "congressionally mandated voter registration forms" and "the President's unlawful effort to upturn the electoral playing field in his favor and against his political rivals."
Lawyers warned some of Trump's demands in the order, including a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration and new ballot deadline rules, may violate the U.S. Constitution, according to The Associated Press.
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New voting tabulators are pictured at the Registrars of Voters Office on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Vernon, Connecticut. (Jessica Hill)
The DNC's lawsuit highlights the role of the government's controversial cost-cutting arm, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
It alleges the order's data-sharing requirements, including instructing DOGE to cross-reference federal data with state voter lists, violate Democrats' privacy rights and increase the risk that they will be harassed "based on false suspicions that they are not qualified to vote."
Top election officials in some Republican states have praised Trump's order, saying it could inhibit instances of voter fraud and give them access to federal data to better maintain their voter rolls.
If the courts determine the order can stand, the changes Trump wants may cause some headaches for election administrators and voters. State election officials, who have already lost some federal cybersecurity assistance, would have to spend time and money to comply with the order, including potentially buying new voting systems and educating voters of the rules.
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The proof-of-citizenship requirement could also cause confusion or voter disenfranchisement because millions of eligible voting-age Americans do not have the proper documents readily available.
In Kansas, which had a proof-of-citizenship requirement for three years before it was overturned, the state's own expert estimated that almost all the roughly 30,000 people who were prevented from registering to vote during the time it was in effect were U.S. citizens who had been eligible.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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