Krishnamoorthi, Cook County Clerk Gordon, Voting Rights Leaders Highlight Threats to Voting Access Posed by Trump Administration Ahead of November Elections

CICERO, IL — Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi joined Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon and Illinois voting rights leaders at the Cook County Elections Processing Center for a tour and roundtable discussion on threats to voting access and election administration ahead of the November elections.

Congressman Krishnamoorthi, Clerk Gordon, Becky Simon of the League of Women Voters of Illinois, Christian Harris of Common Cause Illinois, and Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois discussed President Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting and reports that his Administration could deploy as many as 1,000 Department of Justice personnel in connection with the November elections.

“Donald Trump is trying to seize powers over our elections that the federal government does not have, including turning the Postal Service into a gatekeeper for who receives a ballot,” said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi. “Our elections belong in the hands of the state and local professionals who administer them, not Donald Trump and his political appointees. I will keep fighting every attempt to interfere with Americans’ right to vote. The Postal Service should deliver ballots, not decide who gets to vote.”

Congressman Krishnamoorthi has led efforts to challenge the Trump Administration’s restrictions on mail voting, repeatedly pressing USPS to comply with federal court orders finding that Congress never gave the Postal Service authority to determine which voters receive mail ballots. Yesterday, he renewed his call for Postmaster General David Steiner to resign after USPS finalized its election-mail rule despite a court order barring him from completing that rulemaking. Following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling allowing parts of the Administration’s plan to move forward while litigation continues, Krishnamoorthi stressed that the fight is far from over: the Court did not rule that Trump’s restrictions are lawful, a separate nationwide injunction remains in place, and legal challenges to the policy are continuing.