Oregon senators’ legislation also would overturn Trump suppressing and disenfranchising millions of eligible American voters
Washington DC — U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced they are co-sponsoring legislation that would repeal Donald Trump’s illegal anti-voter executive order, while also blocking DOGE from unlawfully accessing sensitive voter registration data records from Oregon and nationwide.
In addition to repealing Trump’s anti-voting executive order, the Defending America’s Future Elections Act would prevent DOGE from using Americans’ federal tax dollars to get access to state voter registration lists, records concerning voter list maintenance activities, federal databases, or other public or private state records related to federal elections. This provision is crucial to prevent DOGE from using subpoena power to pursue this data, which could be used to purge eligible voters from state voter rolls.
“Trump’s playbook to suppress American voters, while handing over sensitive voter data to his billionaire bros who wants to privatize the federal government for his own personal gain, reads like a bad comic book,” dijo Wyden. “This unconstitutional and illegal power grab undermines the free and fair elections America was built on and will disproportionately hurt rural communities, women and members of the military. We will not stand by while a convicted felon and his broligarchs ransack Americans’ rights to free and fair elections for their own gain.”
“This anti-voter executive order is a direct assault on our democracy,” dijo Merkley. “Trump is scheming to block eligible voters from voting and he’s requiring states to turn over voter rolls- including your personal data- over to Elon Musk. It’s illegal and deeply damaging.”
The blatant Trump scheme to suppress access to the ballot box through overly burdensome documentation requirements is an attempt to implement the dangerous policies in Congressional Republicans’ Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which will be considered by the House soon.
More than 21 million voting age Americans lack simple access to the documents required by Trump’s order, including a U.S. passport, birth certificate, or citizenship certificate. Further, nearly half of all American citizens do not have valid passports, and millions more have a legal name that differs from other government-issued documents, including about 69 million married women whose birth certificates no longer match their legal name. Additionally, noncitizen voting is already a federal crime and is incredibly rare, with an analysis of Heritage Foundation data identifying only 68 such cases out of nearly 2 billion votes cast over four decades.
El Defending America’s Future Elections Act underscores that Congress and the states are responsible for administering elections and any changes to voter documentation—not the president.
In addition to Wyden and Merkley, Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Angus King (I-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) co-sponsored the bill, which was led by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.).
El texto completo del proyecto de ley es aquí.
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