The allegation relates to President Joe Biden's Executive Order 14019, which states, "The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation."
President Biden's executive order directed federal agencies to select "Approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."
President Biden's executive order was called "Visionary" by Ceridwen Cherry, a former staff attorney on the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project, who said, "In a democracy, governments at all levels should be doing everything they can to help eligible people register to vote."
How Federal Agencies Enact EO 14019 Prominent among the many federal agencies carrying out the executive order is the Department of Health and Human Services, which announced in 2022 that federal health centers across the nation now have the discretion to participate in activities-including voter registration-that are outside the scope of core department activities.
"President Biden's executive order empowering every federal agency to engage in electioneering on the taxpayers' dime raises serious ethical and legal concerns [and] is inherently political and directed primarily at groups expected to vote for one party over another," he said.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro responded by saying President Biden's executive order "Recognizes that there are too many obstacles to voting" and it is in place to "Expand access to voter registration and election information."
Their complaint in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania asks a judge to declare three actions unconstitutional: a voter registration executive order made by President Biden, a voter registration action by Mr. Shapiro, and some Department of State directives.
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