Absentee and Mail Voter Protection Act

Key Points

• This bill would completely nullify Executive Order 14399, issued by Trump on March 31, 2026, which attempted to impose federal citizenship verification requirements on state elections and restrict mail-in voting. The bill declares the order has no legal force.
• The bill blocks all federal funding from being used to implement the executive order or any similar order, including by the U.S. Postal Service. This prevents the Postal Service from refusing to deliver state-issued mail ballots based on federal directives.
• Federal agencies like DHS, Social Security, and DOJ would be banned from creating a national voter registration or citizenship database for election purposes, or from compiling citizenship lists using existing databases.
• The Department of Justice would be prohibited from suing states to force them to hand over voter registration lists, and federal agencies would be barred from sharing voter registration data with each other or doing data matching.
• Sponsors argue the Constitution gives Congress and states the power to regulate elections, not the president. The bill's findings note that over 48 million Americans voted by mail in 2024, and the executive order could disenfranchise tens of millions of voters.

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