Washington and Oregon are challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling US elections, alleging it exceeds the president’s statutory authority.
Trump’s March 25 executive order “harms States by purporting to override our sovereign laws governing the counting of votes and voter registration,” and violates the US Constitution and several federal statutes, the states said in a Friday complaint filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Trump’s executive order requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, bans counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, puts new requirements on voting machine technology and voter databases, ...
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