What to Know About Trump’s Executive Order to Create a National Voter List

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would create a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote, the latest in a long line of elections-related moves by the White House. In the executive order, Trump calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration to compile a list of eligible voters in every state and to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from sending absentee ballots to those not included on the list. “The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what has been going on,” Trump said, repeating longstanding claims that he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election. “If you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”...