By: Natalie Jones | March 29, 2025 | Baltimore Sun Article Link
President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order this week calling for changes to U.S. elections, including requirements for people to prove citizenship when registering to vote and to have ballots be cast and received by Election Day.
National voting rights groups have railed against the order, calling on officials to reject it and pointing out that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.
David Levine, a senior fellow at the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, said that several parts of the executive order are on “legally slippery ground.”
“I don’t have the crystal ball, but I’d be stunned if there were no legal challenges here,” he said in an interview Friday. “I think this executive order, on its face, upends the administration of elections on a number of fronts.”
