Lawmakers, State Officials Debate Trump's Order on Election Integrity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The citizenship of individuals attempting to enroll for public assistance must be assessed before they are provided with a federal voter registration form, according to Trump's order.
53% : " Trump ordered the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) administrator to coordinate with the DHS to do a side-by-side comparison of each state's voter registration list with federal immigration databases to ensure consistency with federal law.
50% : "Foreign nationals and non-governmental organizations have taken advantage of loopholes in the law's interpretation, spending millions of dollars through conduit contributions and ballot-initiative expenditures," according to the executive order.
49% : "It is the policy of my administration to enforce federal law and to protect the integrity of our election process," Trump said in the order.
46% : "It is the policy of my administration to enforce those statutes and require that votes be cast and received by the election date established by law," wrote Trump in the order.
46% : Trump mandates Bondi, in consultation with Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, to prioritize enforcement of all laws that prevent foreign nationals from contributing to American elections.
44% : "There is a lot of discussion -- through the SAVE Act, President Trump's recent Executive Order, and elsewhere -- about validating voter citizenship using DHS's SAVE system.
41% : Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, a witness at the hearing, said that Trump's order and the SAVE Act "threaten to disrupt" the "well-established" election systems in her state and that they are "costly, unnecessary, and restrictive.

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