Three years after President Biden issued an executive order for boosting voter registration, GOP officials are ramping up efforts to turn it into a partisan flash point before this fall’s election.
A sign saying “Register & vote!” is on display at the King County elections office in Renton, Wash., in 2020.The order calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration and participation in ways that are “consistent with applicable law.
A main part of Biden’s order builds on existing federal laws that have carved out roles for federal agencies in the process of signing up voters. The state has not announced any partnerships with federal offices on voter registration since the order’s release. But asked by NPR whether Warner considers U.S. military recruitment offices — from which West Virginia is— as “Federal agents,” Michael Queen, a spokesperson for Warner, clarified in an email that “West Virginia will follow all state and federal laws concerning the acceptance of voter registration forms.
Asked by NPR for any evidence that a noncitizen in the U.S. marshals’ custody was encouraged to illegally register to vote because of this new requirement, Watson did not directly respond, saying instead in a statement: “Witnessing the secrecy surrounding the White House, Department of Justice, and most every other federal agency from whom we have asked for answers, we, nor anyone else, have any idea how deeply imbedded Executive Order 14019 has become and who may or may not be acting on it.
Many voting rights groups, however, say that some of the federal agencies have been slow to carry out the executive order’s full intent., a coalition of groups led by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights outlined recommendations for agencies that the organizations said could generate an additional 3.5 million voter registration applications a year.
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