President signs executive order over election rules
President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting down immigrants without legal status on voter rolls.
Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary, said the order ensures that "the Department of Homeland Security and the data that they have available is being fully weaponized to ensure that illegal immigrants aren't voting."
The order instructs that federal funding be cut from states that don't take steps to "secure" their elections and calls on the Department of Justice to prosecute election crimes in states the administration says are not "in compliance with federal law around election integrity."

It also calls for the election assistance commission to require documented proof of U.S. citizenship on mail-in voter registration. Documentation can include a U.S. passport, a military ID, a state or federally issued ID, or a REAL ID that indicates citizenship.
It is already illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote in state and federal elections, and reports of noncitizens voting in elections are very rare, according to research from the Brennan Center for Justice.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie






