Delaware joins states in lawsuit over voting requirements

Delaware has joined 18 other states in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over voting requirements.

“Donald Trump needs to read his Constitution,” said Attorney General Kathleen Jennings. “The president does not have – and even in the depths of our greatest national crises, has never had – the authority to rewrite Delaware’s election laws, to nullify election laws passed by Congress ... Trying to unilaterally alter election procedures in the world’s oldest constitutional republic is blatantly unlawful and un-American. We are, once again, suing to protect the Constitution and common sense.” 

The lawsuit challenges requiring a documentary proof of citizenship on the federal mail registration form; commanding the head of each state-designated federal voter registration agency to assess citizenship prior to providing a federal voter registration form to those enrolled in public assistance programs; and requiring military and overseas voters to submit documentary proof of citizenship and eligibility to vote in state elections.

Jennings said various streams of federal funding could be withheld from noncompliant states.

In its latest lawsuit against Trump policy, Delaware joins Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.