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David Treibs

March 28, 2025 12:38 am

Is Trump's EO "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" going to make any REAL difference or is it merely a good start? A thread that breaks it all down by Col. Shawn Smith and C... View MoreIs Trump's EO "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" going to make any REAL difference or is it merely a good start? A thread that breaks it all down by Col. Shawn Smith and Cause of America @causeamerica 1/ #electionintegrity #freeandfairelections #causeofamerica #EO #trumpEO President Trump's 25 Mar 2025 Executive Order "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" is the most far-reaching action ever taken by a Presidential administration to improve and safeguard U.S. election integrity and transparency. BUT, does it have the teeth we need? Is it enough or are we just too far gone for it to matter? 2/ The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to enforce existing Federal law, consistent with the President's Constitutional responsibilities under the "take care" clause. Chief State Election Officials, all of whom have been grateful for Federal government assistance in the form of election assistance grants which they unhesitatingly accepted, will no doubt now be relieved to receive Federal government assistance to help ensure that all our States are actually in compliance with Federal law, meant to protect Americans' electoral franchise and the integrity of our elections, and which to which they have already attested compliance in order to receive the billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded grants the USG has provided. 3/ Let's take a look at what exactly President Trump's Executive Order directs. EO directive: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) will require documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms, rather than simply "attestation." IMPACT: will no longer allow states to pull the voter ID shenanigans that have escalated over the past few years EO directive: USG agencies will provide states access to Federal databases to verify eligibility and citizenship of individuals registering to vote. IMPACT: No more excuses and feet-dragging for dirty voter rolls, particularly since DOGE is cleaning USG databases, such as SSI. EO directive: U.S. Attorney General (USAG) will prioritize prosecuting non-citizen voting and related crimes, including through use of DHS records and coordination with state attorneys general. IMPACT: "Related crimes" is a massive "catch-all" that could include any actions taken or not taken which facilitate non-citizen voting, e.g. non-enforcement or negligence in verification of citizenship. 4/ EO directive: Federal election-related funds will be conditioned on states complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship. IMPACT: States who do not comply lose federal funding. And as we've seen, there's a-plenty at state. EO directive: EAC's Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0 and security standards for voting equipment will be updated to require a voter-verifiable paper ballot record (prohibits tabulation from barcodes/QR codes) AND excludes use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems without Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), e.g. as currently used in Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. By September, 2025, EAC will rescind the certifications of voting systems which do not comply with the newest revisions will be decertified by EAC. IMPACT: Many states are now going to argue what the GA judge ruled, that their State laws don't require ongoing compliance, just initial compliance. The obvious argument will be that they never complied with any standard. 5/ EO directive: USAG will enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations. Non-compliant states may face prioritized Federal enforcement of election integrity laws and loss of funding given their unwillingness to police fraud. IMPACT: States that won't open their books will be investigated; State officials who have been looking the other way or actively violating Federal law will be prosecuted. EO directive: USAG and Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) shall prevent non-citizens from any involvement in administering elections. IMPACT: Huge; non-citizens have been administering elections in many large States. EO directive: USAG will fully enforce the voter-list maintenance requirements of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act. IMPACT: Unprecedented. This has never been done before; as a result, U.S. voter rolls could drop by 15-20% of active registrants, so for the first time in 20 years, voter roll total active registered voters would be closer to the U.S. Census' estimates, than the +20% reflected in State EAVS reports. 6/ EO directive: USAG shall take appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections. Federal election funding will be conditioned on compliance. IMPACT: Election riggers should be mad about this. Makes it more difficult to inject fraudulent ballots to make up for deficits on Election Day. EO directive: USAG will prioritize enforcement of laws prohibiting foreign nationals from contributing to or donating in U.S. elections. IMPACT: This one's put a massive bullseye on ActBlue, and a smaller one on WinRed, because of the "smurfing" (massive numbers of small, fraudulent "donations" which are actually the disaggregation of large, illegal donations from large donors/ organizations, broken up and fraudulently attributed to small donations/many donors). EO directive: All agencies must report on compliance with undoing Biden Executive Order 14019, which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers. IMPACT: Get out the vote efforts might now actually have to go places and talk to people about registering to vote… without federal funding footing the bill. 7/ EO directive: EAC will audit HAVA expenditures and report discrepancies or issues (e.g. false certifications) with audited States' certifications to the Department of Justice (DoJ) for appropriate enforcement action. IMPACT: State Chief Election Officials who have certified compliance with Federal law in order to receive Federal HAVA grant funds may now be prosecuted for those fraudulent certifications. That means all of them. EO directive: USAG will enter information-sharing agreements with chief State election officials or multi-member agency of each state, to provide DoJ with detailed information on all suspected violations of State and Federal election laws discovered by State officials; to the extent any States are unwilling to enter into such information sharing agreement or refuse to cooperate in investigations and prosecutions of election crimes, USAG will prioritize enforcement of Federal election integrity laws in such States. IMPACT: A lot of Secretaries of State are about to lawyer up. 8/ EO directive: USAG/DHS shall (regarding election infrastructure) "prevent all non-citizens from...accessing election equipment, ballots, or any other relevant materials used in the conduct of any Federal election." DHS, in coordination with EAC, will review and report on the security of all electronic systems used in the voter registration and voting process. IMPACT: This refers to all the election equipment; there isn't a single voter registration system or voting system being used in the U.S. which was not accessed by non-citizens, because every single one of them uses computers assembled or manufactured overseas, primarily in China. 9/ Thank you for reading this. If you found value, please repost and subscribe. We'd love to hear from you – please drop a comment and tell us what YOU think of President Trump's new Executive Order. "Col, retired," just to be clear.

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