Overview
- U.S. District Judge John H. Chun ruled Friday that Executive Order 14248 exceeded presidential authority and cannot be enforced against Oregon and Washington.
- The decision preserves both states’ practice of counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward and halts threatened funding penalties tied to noncompliance.
- Chun also barred national changes to the federal voter registration form to require documentary proof of citizenship and blocked efforts to revise federal voting machine guidelines to exclude barcode- or QR-based tabulators.
- The order is the third federal court setback for the administration’s elections agenda, echoing rulings in related Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., cases.
- The White House says the order is a lawful election-security measure and indicates it plans to appeal, signaling further litigation over the limits of executive power in elections.