‘Total panic’: Democrats order Postal Service to defy Trump’s election security order

‘Any effort by the executive branch to dictate or interfere with election administration through federal agencies is not only unlawful, but violates the fundamental principle of separation of powers’

“Radical Left” Democrats in Congress have ordered the United States Postal Service to defy President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at making the nation’s elections more secure by providing that only U.S. citizens vote, and more.

The Democrats have ordered the USPS to “Refuse to implement any provision of Trump’s executive order that interferes with state election laws or the established handling of election mail.”

Further, they demand a “public” affirmation of the USPS “neutrality.”

Trump recently issued an executive order regarding election security, and then followed with another, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” providing for states to send the USPS a list of voters “to whom the State intends to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot” and requiring “unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes,” for those votes.

The USPS would be authorized to deliver ballots to those people. Under current practices, such ballots can be delivered to anyone on state voter lists that have been documented to include dead people, non-Americans, illegal aliens and more.

In fact, some states have fought for years in court to keep those names on state lists.

Trump’s reasoning was linked to accurate votes and national security: “We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”

The letter was from far-left Rep. Nellie Pou and signed by the entire New Jersey Democratic congressional delegation – including Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim and Reps. Frank Pallone, Donald Norcross, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Josh Gottheimer, Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Herbert Conaway.

“The Radical Left is in total panic as President Trump moves to finally secure our nation’s broken and fraud-riddled election system!” charged a report at the Gateway Pundit. ”

The Democrats’ letter to Postmaster General David Steiner said that only Congress can influence the “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections” run by states.

“Any effort by the executive branch to dictate or interfere with election administration through federal agencies is not only unlawful, but violates the fundamental principle of separation of powers. Against this backdrop, any effort to involve the United States Postal Service (‘USPS’) in carrying out this executive order—especially in ways that affect the handling, timing, or treatment of election mail—must be rejected,” it charges.

It boasts New Jersey’s systems have “strong safeguards,” such as envelopes being labeled “Official Mail-In Ballot.”

In addition to state law, New Jersey has a “multi-agency effort to safeguard election integrity.”

And the letter demands that the signers be informed of “any communications, guidance, or operational changes considered in response to this executive order.”

The Gateway Pundit report charged the Democrats are “demanding the United States Postal Service ignore the president’s executive order aimed at stopping non-citizen voting and cleaning up the mail-in ballot chaos that plagued our election.”

The report characterized Trump’s order as directing “the Department of Homeland Security to compile verified lists of eligible U.S. citizens” and having secure barcode tracking on mail ballots.

The order also “bars the Postal Service from delivering ballots to non-citizens,” the report said.

Democrats are challenging the president’s order in court, as they have with almost every order he’s issued during his presidency.

One dispute over mail-in ballots currently is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Arguments recently were held over states’ practices of accepting mail-in ballots days, even weeks, after the election is over.

Reports confirm a majority of the justice appeared skeptical about the legality of that practice, which can open the door to election fraud. More than a dozen states currently allow the suspect practice.

Trump, meanwhile, is continuing to push Congress to adopt further election integrity protections found in the SAVE America Act.