Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs blasts Trump executive order on voter lists

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs blasts Trump executive order on voter lists

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Key Points:

  • Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs criticized President Trump's executive order to create a national list of verified eligible voters, stating the Constitution grants election authority to states and Congress, not the President.
  • The executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration to collaborate on creating state voter lists and aims to bar the USPS from sending absentee ballots to those not on approved voter rolls, while introducing secure ballot envelopes with barcodes.
  • Hobbs emphasized that voting fraud is extremely rare in Washington, citing only 15 cases of noncitizen voting from 1982 to 2025, and defended the state's vote-by-mail system as secure and accessible.
  • He warned that Trump's efforts to restrict ballot distribution to registered voters are unconstitutional and could disenfranchise voters, urging officials to focus on protecting voting rights rather than imposing barriers.
  • Despite Trump's criticism of mail-in voting, he has used mail ballots himself, including in recent Florida local elections.

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