Time Is Running Out To Stop Biden’s ‘Access To Voting’ Executive Order
In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to interfere in the election process, which included an order to help Americans apply to vote by mail, promote voter registration and combat so-called “misinformation.”
The “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting” essentially codified the Democrats’ favorite pandemic-era “reforms” — such as using federal agencies to promote voting by mail, despite concerns about whether that process is truly secure.
The executive order also promoted voter registration for federal prisoners, along with numerous other reforms.
“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy,” the order claims.
According to an analysis of the executive order from The Federalist, Biden’s action blatantly instructed “federal agencies to engage in overtly political activities that will affect elections, while violating the Constitution and federal law in the process.”
Giving federal agencies the authority to take actions that directly affect the outcome of elections has prompted concerns that the executive order will be weaponized in favor of Democrats.
As The Federalist noted: “Through food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, and other welfare programs, federal agencies have the resources and ability to target millions of potential voters across every state in the country — potential voters whose information is required to enroll in these programs and who are statistically more likely to vote Democrat.”
Further, the executive order gave third-party groups that were hand-picked by the Biden administration the authority to conduct voter registration activities at federal agencies — giving them special access and taxpayer-funded resources for the activities. While an exclusive exposé from the Daily Signal revealed that the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was selected as one of these “non-partisan third-party organizations,” the Biden administration has refused to release the names of the groups that were approved or the full details of the agencies’ plans to carry out the executive order.
The Federalist is calling on Congress and state attorneys general to take action to nullify Biden’s executive order — arguing that they must use “the power of the courts” to seek a “permanent injunction barring agencies from carrying out Executive Order 14019.”
According to the outlet, there are at least three different methods to nullify the order.
The first legal claim cited was that the order violates the National Voter Registration Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, where the plaintiffs can argue that these federal agencies do not have the statutory authority to register voters.
The second claim that the plaintiffs can make is that the executive order violates the U.S. Constitution’s elections clause — as state legislatures have the ultimate authority to regulate their own elections with limited oversight from Congress, while the order would instruct these federal agencies to “engage in activity that affects the time, place, and manner of elections without statutory authority to do so,” according to The Federalist.
The third potential legal claim involves the Anti-Deficiency Act, which prevents federal agencies from spending taxpayer money that was never authorized by Congress.
The Federalist concluded by noting that Biden’s order “is a ticking time bomb threatening the integrity of the 2024 presidential election,” and implored “the states and Congress to work together to stop this unprecedented scheme before time runs out.”
