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       WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered tighter controls on federal elections, including requiring proof of US citizenship when registering to vote, as the Republican continues to attack a system he insists remains tilted against him.

       Experts swiftly denounced his executive order as an abuse of presidential power that could ultimately prevent millions of Americans from casting ballots, and rights groups already have vowed to challenge it in court. Trump, now in his second term, has never acknowledged his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, and he maintains baseless claims of massive election fraud — particularly in absentee voting, a method which has become widely used across the United States.

       “Perhaps some people think I shouldn’t be complaining, because we won in a landslide” last November, Trump said as he signed the executive order in the White House.

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       “But we’ve got to straighten out our election. This country is so sick because of the election, the fake elections,” he said. “And we’re going to straighten it out, one way or the other.”

       The new rules will require proof of citizenship to be presented — through documents such as a passport — when registering to vote in one’s state of residence. States that fail to comply with the directive could see cuts to their federal election funding.

       According to the executive order, the attorney general would be empowered to “take all necessary action... against states that violate these provisions by including absentee or mail-in ballots received after election day in the final tabulation of votes.”

       Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2025