Since Minnesota along with seven other states has been sued by the Department of Justice to turn over voter registration records, it’s a good time to check on the Trump Administration’s drive to supervise how states handle voting registration and ballot counting.
For years the president has claimed without evidence there is a great deal of voter fraud, particularly by non-citizens, occurring mostly in states which he lost. Now his administration is trying to win more control over our elections.
Before getting into specifics, remember two things.
First, the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 4 says states should prescribe how elections are run and that the Congress can “by Law make or alter such Regulations”. The President is given no constitutional authority over elections.
Second,