President Donald Trump is being urged to take more executive power over elections.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, February 27th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Our first story today is a post-exclusive.

Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House

are circulating a 17-page draft executive order.

It claims that China interfered in the 2020 election and uses that as a basis to declare a national

emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. Peter Tickton is a Florida

lawyer who is advocating for the executive order and went to school with Trump. Tickton argues that declaring a national

emergency would empower the president to ban mail ballots and voting machines that he claims are

vulnerable to foreign interference. Trump has been pressuring Republicans in Congress to pass

legislation to require proof of citizenship for

voter registration and ID to cast ballots. That measure, called the Save America Act, passed in the

House but faces obstacles in the Senate. Trump has said that if the bill fails, he will act unilaterally

to impose the changes for the midterms.

What that executive order could look like and the draft circulating among activists have not been previously reported.

Number two. A partially blind refugee left in a parking lot by Border Patrol was found dead.

Last week, Border Patrol agents released Naurul Amin Shah Alam in the parking lot of a closed

copy shop in Buffalo. The post obtained security footage of a white van dropping off a man that night wearing clothes that match the ones Shah Alam was wearing when he was arrested.

The 56-year-old then disappeared, and relatives spent days searching for him.

He spoke little English and was partially blind.

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