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Elections and Voting
What this site holds on elections and voting, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.
This page is about elections and voting.
It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.
What Project 2025 proposes
Every proposal indexed from chapter 29 (Federal Election Commission). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.
- Bar prosecutions under readings the election commission rejectsChapter 29 · p. 863 · the document says “should”
- Prosecute only clear violations of election lawChapter 29 · p. 863 · the document says “must”
- Oppose reducing the commission from six members to an odd numberChapter 29 · p. 865 · the document says “should”
- Prioritize nominations and limit commissioner overstaysChapter 29 · p. 865 · the document says “should”
- Consider removing the commission's independent litigating authorityChapter 29 · p. 865 · the document says “should consider”
- Raise contribution limits and index reporting to inflationChapter 29 · p. 866 · the document says “should”
What has happened against those proposals
Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
February 18, 2025 · 90 FR 10447
This order gives the White House more say over agencies that once ran free. Their rules must be cleared first.
- Bar prosecutions under readings the election commission rejects: same subject, different route. Executive Order 14215 of February 18, 2025 acts on exactly the question the proposal raises, whose reading of the law governs, and settles it the other way. It amends Executive Order 12866 so that the definition of agency expressly includes the Federal Election Commission, bringing the commission's significant regulatory actions under review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and section 7 makes the opinions of the President and the Attorney General controlling on all executive branch employees, barring any employee from advancing an interpretation of law as the position of the United States that contravenes them, including in regulations, guidance and litigation positions, unless authorized. The proposal asks the President to direct the Justice Department not to prosecute under a reading the commission rejects. Where they part: the order says nothing about prosecutions or about the Federal Election Campaign Act, and it does not forbid such a directive, so it reverses the direction of deference without addressing the charging decision the chapter is about.
- Consider removing the commission's independent litigating authority: partly matches. Section 7 of Executive Order 14215 of February 18, 2025 provides that the President and the Attorney General supply authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch, that their opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties, and that no employee acting in an official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes them, naming positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized by the President or in writing by the Attorney General. The same order amends the definition of agency in Executive Order 12866 to include the Federal Election Commission by name. That subordinates the legal positions the commission may take to the Attorney General's, which is the independence the passage asks the President to consider ending. The fit breaks down because the passage asks for an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act and the order asks Congress for nothing, because nothing in the order removes or mentions the commission's authority to appear in court in its own name, because section 7 governs which interpretation of law may be advanced rather than who may sue, and because section 7 speaks of employees of the executive branch without stating whether the commissioners are covered.
Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations
May 9, 2025 · 90 FR 20363
This order is about rules that carry jail time. Agencies must list them and limit new ones.
- Prosecute only clear violations of election law: partly matches. Executive Order 14294 of May 9, 2025 sets as the policy of the United States that criminal enforcement of criminal regulatory offenses is disfavored, that prosecutions should focus on matters where a putative defendant is alleged to have known his conduct was unlawful, and that strict liability offenses are disfavored. It directs each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, to publish every criminal regulatory offense it enforces together with the applicable mens rea standard, and it strongly discourages criminal enforcement of any offense left off that list. That is a presidential direction against prosecuting people who cannot tell that they are breaking the law, which is the reason the passage gives for its request. The fit breaks down because the order reaches criminal regulatory offenses, which it defines as federal regulations enforceable by a criminal penalty, rather than violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act itself, because it names neither the Justice Department's election crimes work, the Federal Election Commission, nor the First Amendment concern the passage raises, and because it governs when a regulatory offense should be charged rather than setting any standard of clarity for election law.
Executive orders
Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.
- Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal ElectionsEO 14399 · March 31, 2026 · “Election”
- Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American ElectionsEO 14248 · March 25, 2025 · “Election”
- Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental InformationEO 14152 · January 20, 2025 · “Election”
Proclamations, memoranda and the rest
Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.
- Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Foreign Interference in or Undermining Public Confidence in United States ElectionsNotice · August 31, 2026 · “Election”
- Granting Pardons for Certain Offenses Related to the 2020 Presidential ElectionProclamation · November 7, 2025 · “Election”
- Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Foreign Interference in or Undermining Public Confidence in United States ElectionsNotice · August 29, 2025 · “Election”
Agency rules
Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.
- Ballot Mail for Federal ElectionsPostal Service · August 26, 2026 · “Ballot”
Public laws
Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.
No law's short title carries one of these words.
Roll call votes
Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.
- H R 884To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022
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