Trump Mandates Proof of Citizenship to Vote Amid Sweeping Election Rules Change
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has now changed the election laws across the United States. The March 25 executive order includes changes such as proof of citizenship to vote in U.S. elections. Critics argue the order will have the effect of changing the process of how people register to vote and say it could disenfranchise voters. And already, there are groups saying they will challenge the election law changes in court.
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| 0:00.0 | Election laws across the United States have now been changed under an executive order from President Trump. |
| 0:05.6 | The biggest change requiring proof of citizenship to vote. |
| 0:10.8 | However, this order has sent shockwaves, mainly along partisan lines, |
| 0:14.7 | with legacy media and many Democrat figures criticizing it. |
| 0:18.6 | And they're saying this could disenfranchise voters. I'll be going into the |
| 0:22.9 | details of what this election order means today. And in other news, the Supreme Court has upheld |
| 0:28.5 | regulations under the Biden administration to restrict so-called ghost guns. And also, Donald Trump |
| 0:35.7 | has now ordered the FBI to declassified documents on crossfire hurricane. |
| 0:41.5 | That's the whole case around the fake Trump-Russia allegations that hung over the 2016 elections |
| 0:46.9 | and worked to undermine his entire first term as president. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm the Epic Times senior investigative reporter Joshua |
| 0:54.4 | Philip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:00.6 | President Donald Trump has now changed the election laws across the United States. |
| 1:06.9 | The March 25th executive order stipulates changes, including on proof of citizenship to |
| 1:12.9 | vote in the U.S. And critics are arguing these changes are going to make it so that people are |
| 1:19.0 | going to have to register to vote, and they say that's going to disenfranchise voters. They have to |
| 1:23.5 | show ID now. They have to prove their American citizens, and they're saying millions of |
| 1:28.4 | people might not vote because of this. Now, I'm going to go into this order what it means, |
| 1:33.1 | but first, this is Trump talking about the need for proof of citizenship during a press conference |
| 1:39.0 | earlier this week. Our elections are very dishonest, very corrupt, and we have to straighten it out, and it's |
| 1:45.6 | so easy to do it, and we should go to paper ballots, we should go to one-day voting, we should |
| 1:50.3 | go to voter ID, and just one other thing, proof of a thing called citizenship in the United |
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