Oregon AG Dan Rayfield Slams Trump’s Executive Order Threatening Mail-In Voting Integrity

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is sounding the alarm on President Trump’s latest executive order targeting mail-in voting, joining a coalition of more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. in a lawsuit challenging what they call blatant federal overreach.

Speaking on KGW’s “Straight Talk,” Rayfield condemned the order as an unconstitutional power grab that threatens to turn the U.S. Postal Service from a neutral carrier into an arbiter of which ballots get delivered. “Postal Service has no business in our elections other than making sure that we get our ballots delivered on time,” he declared.

Oregon has been a pioneer in vote-by-mail for over 30 years, successfully running elections under both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state. Rayfield emphasized that the state’s “real data” shows no evidence of widespread fraud, directly contradicting the Trump administration’s baseless claims.

The executive order’s vague language risks weaponizing the Postal Service to deny or delay ballots, effectively suppressing voter participation. Rayfield warned this is a dangerous flip from facilitating democratic participation to gatekeeping the vote.

“This is another example of the president stepping out of the lanes, the powers that Congress gave him,” Rayfield said. “At no time did our framers want one person to regulate and control our elections.”

The lawsuit joins a growing list of legal challenges to Trump’s authoritarian attempts to undermine democratic norms and federalism. Oregon’s pushback is part of a broader resistance to the administration’s pattern of dismantling civil rights protections and attacking voting access.

As the battle over mail-in voting intensifies, Rayfield urged Oregonians and all Americans to focus on the facts and defend their right to vote free from federal interference disguised as “oversight.” The stakes could not be higher: preserving the integrity of elections in the face of an administration that repeatedly tries to weaponize government agencies against democracy itself.