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Judge Partly Blocks Trump Order Seeking to Overhaul US Elections
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Published 4 months ago on
April 24, 2025

People vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 5, 2024. (REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo)

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(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to impose new rules on U.S. elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eligible citizens the right to vote.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Trump administration cannot enforce parts of the order requiring federal election officials to assess whether people who are registering to vote are citizens. However, she declined to block parts of the order that sought to force states not to count mail-in ballots received after election day.

(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York)

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