Oregon Secretary of State plans to challenge Trump executive order on mail-in voting

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Oregon Secretary of State plans to challenge Trump executive order on mail-in voting

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Published on Apr 2, 2026, 12:38:12 PM
Total time: 00:13:20

Episode Description

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that instructs the U.S. Postal Service to only send mail-in ballots to people who have been deemed eligible by the administration. Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read has vowed to challenge the order in court, along with other secretaries of state

 

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots that arrive late to be counted as long as they’re postmarked on or before Election Day. Oregon has had a similar law in place since 2022.  

 

Read joins us to talk about what these changes could mean for Oregon’s vote-by-mail system.

 

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