Stacey Abrams on Trump's mail-in voting order: 'Patently illegal'

Source: The Hill

04/05/26 10:14 PM ET


Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams (D) on Saturday slammed President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting as unconstitutional and illegal. “It is patently illegal, and it is entirely in the playbook of voter suppression that Republicans, including Donald Trump, have been using for the last decade or so,” Abrams, a former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, told host Jonathan Capehart on MS NOW’s “The Weekend.”

On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. Postal Service to send ballots only to eligible voters on a list compiled by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, with assistance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow and Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano.

The order also states that approved mail-in ballot envelopes will have unique barcodes for tracking and directs the attorney general to take “all lawful steps to deter and address noncompliance with Federal law” including withholding federal funds from states and localities in violation.

Despite voting by mail in a Florida special election last month, the president has long railed against mail-in voting. He falsely claimed that the practice, along with immigrants without documentation casting ballots, cost him the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to former President Biden.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5817423-stacey-abrams-trump-mail-in-voting/