Richard Hasen

But it does seem to potentially serve as a background for pretextually claiming foreign interference as a basis for Trump to try to interfere with how elections are being run.

So this document was a document not prepared by anyone in the administration, but prepared by a group of election deniers, people who have long claimed that there could be some kind of national security reason for messing with elections.

And what this executive order that was drafted by these activists purports to do is to claim that this threat of foreign interference would give the president vast powers over elections to change everything from how people register to vote...

what documents they would need to prove to register to vote, whether they could register to vote online.

It would ban basically all means of registering to vote except those that would be in person or by mail, and it would require the...

production of documentary proof of citizenship.

And let me explain what that is, because that's different than voter ID.

So voter ID, you go to the polls, maybe you're going to take out your driver's license or something like that.

This is different.

This is in order to register to vote, you would have to provide evidence that you're a citizen of the United States, which basically consists of either a passport or

or your birth certificate or your naturalization certificate.

If you've changed your name, for example, because you got married, you'd also have to provide evidence of your name change.

These are not the kind of documents that people have easy access to.

This would be a huge impediment to people voting.

It would essentially require everyone to re-register to vote.

So you'd have to start from scratch.

And paying for it as well.

And paying for it, right.

Everything I'm telling you about this, what's in this draft executive order that these activists have come up with, is supposed to be implemented in time for the 2026 elections.

So it's really an impossible task if this is actually what gets produced.