Nuzhat Chowdhury, director of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice’s democracy and justice program, stressed the security of mail voting.
“Especially in New Jersey, we have many safeguards to ensure that only eligible voters are voting in every election,” she said. “Vote by mail is safe. It’s widely used, and it’s a decision that New Jersey gets to make, not the president.”
Trump’s latest order to restrict mail voting follows other failed efforts to tip the scales through rulemaking.
Courts have previously struck down orders that would have required voters to provide a narrow set of documents to prove citizenship and that all ballots be received by Election Day, contrary to rules in New Jersey and other states that provide grace periods for mail ballots sent before polls close.