Organizations file suit challenging Trump's effort to overhaul election system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " "Neither the President nor the Secretary of Defense has any legal authority to disregard UOCAVA's statutory requirement to make such a post card available to military and overseas voters," the lawsuit states.
50% : It names a number of defendants, including the Executive Office of the President, the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense, as well as the United States Election Assistance Commission and its commissioners -- an independent government commissioner focused on election administration.
50% : The lawsuit notes that Congress has "long established" that the federal Election Day is the first Tuesday in November, in addition to establishing the date that presidential electors must be appointed, but "has left further regulation in this area largely up to States."
48% : "Congress can enact election laws if it chooses, but absent a conflict with federal law, States have the power to establish and follow their own election laws," the lawsuit states.
48% : The executive order signed by Trump directs to secretary of defense to update the form used by these groups to register and request an absentee ballot -- called the "Federal Post Card Application" -- to include a requirement of documentary proof of citizenship as well as "proof of eligibility to vote in elections in the State in which the voter is attempting to vote.
45% : The order instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute elections crimes in states the administration deems are not in compliance with federal law, requires the Department of Homeland Security to work with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to review state voter registration lists, and directs the Election Assistance Commission to withhold federal funding if states do not institute "uniform and nondiscriminatory" standards for counting votes.
43% : Trump has signed an executive order requiring stricter voting regulations.
40% : "Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans' voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error," the order said.
29% : Trump -- who was charged with multiple federal crimes for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in cases that were dropped once he was elected -- has repeatedly suggested that mail-in ballots have led to an increase in voting fraud.

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