Tracking Trump's executive orders: Barriers to casting a ballot

Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections

Date Signed: March 25, 2025

Status: implemented 

Key Provisions:

• This Executive Order requires all voters to provide a government issued ID that indicates citizenship status, such as a passport, in order to cast their ballot. Drivers’ licenses and military IDs, alone, do not qualify. 
• The Order would also affect mail-in voting by declaring that any mail-in ballot or vote counted after election day will be void, falsely alleging that “this is like allowing persons who arrive 3 days after Election Day, perhaps after a winner has been declared, to vote in person at a former voting precinct.”  
• This Order requires that states share sensitive voter data with the Attorney General and the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE).
• States that refuse to comply with the order face the loss of critical election funding, including Help America Vote Act (HAVA) election security grants. 

Interfaith Alliance Counterpoints:

• As a leading voice in the pro-democracy faith movement, Interfaith Alliance is deeply concerned about the implications this order will have on our constitutional right to vote and participate in elections. 
• This order is an unconstitutional overreach by the President, as only Congress and the states are afforded the power to legislate election administration by the Constitution. 
• Instead of protecting our electoral system, this Executive Order would brazenly undermine people’s right to the ballot box, especially historically marginalized communities who have been targeted by anti-democratic measures in the past. 
• This voter ID requirement is more stringent than any voter ID law currently in effect. It would prevent Americans from most states from using drivers’ licenses or military IDs as sole forms of identification. 
• Interfaith Alliance is concerned with how this will impact naturalized citizens and the millions of Americans who do not have such documents and face barriers to access them.