Judge declines to block Trump’s mail-in voting executive order

A federal judge declined to block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

A federal judge on Thursday declined to block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

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The decision comes as Trump’s Republicans are locked in a tight ​battle to keep control of both houses of the U.S. Congress in the November midterm elections. Trump has ​for years pushed the false claim that his 2020 election defeat was the result of ⁠widespread voter fraud and has criticized voting by mail.

The executive order signed by Trump on March 31 directed his administration ​to compile a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state and to use federal data ​to help state election officials verify who is eligible to vote.