(PROPOSED) EXECUTIVE ORDER REGARDING POSTAL VOTING

1. Article II of the Constitution assigns the president the roles of commander in chief, head of state, chief law enforcement officer, and head of the executive branch. The president has the sole constitutional obligation to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” and is granted broad discretion over federal law enforcement decisions, including the Judiciary's opinions. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. When an Executive Order comes directly from the provisions of the Constitution, the Legislature is not involved. On the other hand, when a president’s authority comes from power granted by a Legislative statute, Congress can try to negate or modify that authority, or pass legislation to nullify the order by a super majority that cannot be vetoed. https://www.heritage.org/political-process/heritage-explains/executive-orders 2. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that all executive orders from the president of the United States must be supported by the Constitution. By Executive Order 6581, the president created the Export-Import Bank of the United States. On March 7, 1934, he established the National Recovery Review Board (Executive Order 6632). On June 29, the president issued Executive Order 6763 "under the authority vested in me by the Constitution", thereby creating the National Labor Relations Board, and many more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order#cite_note-AntieauRich1997-5 3. Regarding the Right to Vote, the US Constitution States, in Relevant Part, as Follows: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof...shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution" (Article VI). Amendment XXVI Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ... Amendment XIX The right of citizens of the United States to vote... Amendment XXI The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State... 4. More Particular Substance of this Executive Order: Amendment XIV, Section 1. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The above language necessarily requires in person voter identification and proof of citizenship (even an expired passport). Massive voter voting cannot comply with the Constitution. 5. Under the original Constitution, it was the states, not the federal government, which were to provide general protection of life, liberty, and property. Apart from this limitation, the mid-nineteenth-century conflicts over slavery and civil rights led the Framers of Amendment XIV to reject this assumption and to incorporate a right to protection of life, liberty and property by state government into the Federal Constitution, which is directly enforceable by the President of the United States. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3172&context=dlj p. 525-526 6. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: Every state shall require the protection of liberty and property interest in the vote of US citizens voting in their state for any election so as not to be cancelled out by an opposing unqualified ballot. Specifically with respect Presidential elections, this ORDER mandates "in person" voting by US citizens 18 years or older only (with federally recognized valid proof of identification, citizenship and age) in any federal election. The governor of every state and election commissioner or chief executive of every county within the state shall submit with the electors' votes an oath that their state obeyed this order under penalty of perjury 18 USC 1621 and 18 USC 1001 and under 18 USC 1621, which crimes are punishable by five years plus five years plus up to ten years’ or as much as life imprisonment, depending on the circumstances, consecutively. If this order be violated in any way, including submitting to the President of the Senate the electors' counts without such oath the said officials shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of the aforesaid crimes and the electors from their state shall not be counted by the President of the Senate in the election count of votes for the President and Vice President, nor in any other federal election, the purported vote tally. 7. In addition, the said officers of the said state who violates this order shall be deemed to have violated their state requited oath, including under 5 U.S. Code § 3331, Oath of office: 8. An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States..." This section does not affect other oaths required by law. Under the laws of a said state, it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office against the Constitution. 9. In addition, under 18 U.S. Code § 2381, Treason: 10. Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. 10. Military personnel and disabled persons who qualify can request an absentee ballot with a sworn excuse and proof of identity and citizenship. 11. Some Past Problems With Postal Voting: 12. In 2018, a report from the US Senate Intelligence Committee of Russian meddling in the 2016 election pointed out that auditable paper ballots, by definition part of all vote by mail elections, were potentially safer than paperless voting systems, which are still used in a few states. However only about half the states actually use paper ballots to conduct election audits. 13. Specific Types of Mass Mail In Problems Include, But Are Not Limited To: 14. (a) Voter's request for postal ballot, in states that require one, is lost or not received or processed in time, so voter must vote in person or not vote (for example over 9,000 properly requested ballots were not sent in Wisconsin in 2020), (b) Voter's request is altered or forged, (c) In states that mail ballots to registered voters without request, some voters have died or moved, and any ballots not returned by the post office can get into the wrong hands, (d) Election office sends voters the wrong instructions or wrong ballot, when offices on the ballot differ by party or district, (e) Voter does not receive mailed ballot, because it does not arrive at the address in time, or someone else takes it (d) Voter misplaces ballot, so must vote with provisional ballot, and someone else may find and vote the original postal ballot, leading to rejection of the provisional ballot, (e) Voter is pressured to vote a certain way by family, caregiver, or other, or provide the blank ballot to someone, (f) Voters may be paid to vote a certain way, (g) Someone collects many ballots and does not deliver the ones from neighborhoods likely to vote against the collector's candidates, (h) Someone collects many ballots, opens envelopes, and marks votes; if voter has already voted, fraudster can mark extra votes on same contests, to invalidate ballot, (i) Election office receives the ballot late (114,000 ballots in 2018); in a Philadelphia experiment, most ballots were misplaced by the postal service, and even after they were found, 21% took more than 4 days to arrive and 3% took more than a week, (j) Voter's signature on envelope is missing (55,000 in 2018) or does not match signature on file (67,000), so either there is widespread fraud being prevented by signature reviews, or if these submissions were not fraudulent, then valid ballots are being rejected, (k) Forged signature on envelope is accepted as close enough to signature on file, so invalid ballots are accepted, (l) Signature rejection rates vary by race, county and state, ranging from none to 20% rejected, (m) Staff who open envelopes falsify or ignore ballots, (n) Compilation of votes omits postal ballots. 26. SEVERABILITY: If some of the terms of this order are held to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder will still apply. 27. This ORDER shall take effect immediately, notwithstanding any prior Postal Voting that occurred.