Trump executive order restricting mail-in voting in states

Washington — President Trump signed an enforcement bid Tuesday requiring states to enforce stricter mail-in voting rules and directing his medication to make a database of confirmed U.S. citizens who are eligible to ballot successful each state.

The further requirements, made without immoderate enactment by Congress, are each but definite to look challenges successful the courts. It's not wide whether oregon however the bid volition impact the midterm superior elections, which are already underway successful galore states.

"The cheating connected mail-in voting is legendary," the president said successful the Oval Office up of the signing. He said requiring voters to amusement recognition and impervious of citizenship volition beryllium issues for different time. 

The bid requires the recently confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to make a database of U.S. citizens eligible to ballot successful each state, utilizing information from the Social Security Administration, a White House authoritative told CBS News. It besides says the U.S. Postal Service whitethorn lone nonstop absentee ballots to radical connected each state's federally prepared approved mail-in ballot list. There volition beryllium 1 envelope per ballot. 

States that don't spell on with the enforcement bid are astatine hazard of losing national funding, a White House authoritative said.

It's not wide what would hap if an eligible U.S. national is accidentally oregon improperly near disconnected the list. The Daily Caller was archetypal to study the outline of the enforcement order. 

The bid comes arsenic the president has expressed vexation with Congress for not passing further restrictions connected mail-in voting, which helium has called "mail-in cheating."There 

CBS News reported earlier this week that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security are adjacent to finalizing an statement that volition let the national authorities to usage delicate elector registration information for migration and transgression investigations, according to sources with nonstop cognition of the plan. The Justice Department's controversial collection of elector rotation data is being litigated successful dozens of states, and the section has not disclosed its data-sharing plans to immoderate of the courts.  

The Justice Department has sued states for failing to crook implicit statewide elector rolls sought by Attorney General Pam Bondi. In September, suits were filed against the apical predetermination officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, alleging their nonaccomplishment to supply elector registration rolls violates national law. 

Mr. Trump voted by mail in Florida's peculiar predetermination earlier this month, adjacent though helium was successful municipality portion aboriginal in-person voting was available. The president defended voting by message due to the fact that he's the president.    

Sarah N. Lynch contributed to this report.