Republican Election Official Predicts Courts Will Block Trump's Mail-In Voting Order

Source: Yahoo! News/Huff Post

Sun, April 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM EDT


Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, a Republican election official, said Sunday that he was confident the courts would block President Donald Trump’s executive order about mail-in voting.

“I am confident of an outcome in our favor,” Schmidt said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” Pennsylvania is one of the 23 states with officials challenging Trump's order.

Last month, Trump signed the order, which seeks to limit mail-in voting and restrict who the U.S. Postal Service can send absentee ballots to. Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed to challenge it, including one from a group of Democratic lawmakers who’ve argued that Trump’s order interferes with states’ constitutional right to conduct elections.

Stephen Richer, a fellow Republican and former recorder for Maricopa County, Ariz., agreed with Schmidt and noted that legal challenges against the order were poised to succeed.

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