New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver issued a sharply worded statement this week attacking President Donald Trump’s new executive order aimed at tightening election security, joining a growing list of Democrat officials nationwide threatening lawsuits over the move.
The executive order, signed this week, seeks to create a nationwide system to verify voter eligibility and tighten rules surrounding mail-in voting — an issue Congress has debated for years but failed to fully address at the federal level.
Within minutes of the order being signed, Democrat officials across the country began threatening legal action. According to Fox News, California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately responded, “We’re challenging it… See you in court,” while election officials in Arizona, Oregon, Maine and Nevada also signaled they would sue to block the order.
Trump acknowledged the legal fight was coming but signed the order anyway, saying election integrity concerns needed to be addressed. “The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary,” Trump said after signing the order. “I think this will help a lot with elections,” Fox News reported.
The order directs federal agencies to work together to compile lists of eligible voters and includes measures such as ballot tracking barcodes and restrictions on sending absentee ballots to individuals not on verified voter rolls.
But Toulouse Oliver responded with a lengthy statement via X accusing the president of attempting to undermine elections and disenfranchise voters.
“The executive order signed by the President yesterday is yet another unconstitutional attempt to make it harder for eligible voters to cast a ballot and dangerously undermines the confidence in our elections,” Toulouse Oliver said in the statement.
She also claimed the order “threatens to disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible New Mexicans” and said her office would work with the New Mexico Department of Justice to review the order and “certainly will challenge it.”
Her statement also argued that election administration is a state responsibility and criticized the idea of a federal voter verification system.
However, the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly prohibit the federal government from setting national election standards, and Congress has historically passed numerous federal election laws, including the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act.
The executive order comes as Republicans in Congress have pushed for the SAVE Act, a federal law that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, but the legislation has stalled in the Senate.
Trump’s order appears to be an attempt to move forward on election integrity measures while Congress remains deadlocked.
The issue is likely to be decided in court, as multiple Democrat-led states have already pledged legal action. Fox News reported that election lawyers aligned with Democrats called the order “a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort,” while Trump has argued the order is necessary to ensure elections are “clean and fair.”
Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, is currently running in the party’s primary for lieutenant governor in New Mexico, adding a political dimension to her response as election policy once again becomes a major national issue heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
With lawsuits expected and the federal government moving forward, the fight over who controls election rules in America — states, Congress, or the executive branch — now appears headed for another major court battle.
Is there a propulsion system in the world powerful enough to get this fat tub of lard ballistic??
Oliver is the overpaid face of democrat corruption in my opinion. there is only one reason to hide voter rolls, she knows they are not valid.
Of course she’s having a meltdown. The walls are closing in on her. She’s reactive and trying to be proactive enough to seal her spot as Lt. Governor, yet refuses to be transparent with voter rolls.
Smartmatic and Dominion, manipulated voter registrations and voter logs will be her own undoing. She can run for another office but she must not prevail. Every lie will be brought to the surface and recompense is on the way.
Please, Piñon Post, it’s not the SAVE Act; it’s the SAVE America Act. And it WILL save us, if we can get all the desperate, dodgy Democrats out of the way who are trying to obstruct the rebirth of our Republic.
Democrat Standing order #4 If it’s Broke in Our Favor, Don’t Fix It. We all know why the democrats want this stopped, if everything was up to par, there would be no reason to try and hide the voter roles.
Oh my, another way to disenfranchise voters. I am sick of hearing that lame excuse. The only ones disenfranchised will be the cheaters. These people will stop at nothing to keep the fix in.
You nailed it.
Truth.
another village idiot. where do we get these idiot’s and why do we elect them?
VOTE FOR RAMONA- send Maggie on her way.
You know voting is your voice. Unless you are legitimately physically/mentally disabled, keep your voter registration up to date, AND PHYSICALLY get to the poll to vote. Your employer must allow you to do this. If you absolutely cannot physically get to the poll, YOU HAVE ALWAY HAD THE OPTION TO request a mail in ballot (i.e. serving in the military, going to be out of country, physically disabled) I requested a mail in when I was in Iraq. This did not keep me from voting. Even easier is obtaining a citizen ID. Makes me wonder – how lazy is our population – or how dummy down are we?
In many states if the Dims can’t cheat, they can’t win. Unfortunately in NM we have a very poorly educated populace that keeps putting these morons back in office as our state flounders at the bottom of the barrel.
And, Pilgrim…. here’s the funny part.
If they sue – they cannot escape the “discovery” period requirements – thus, ratting out themselves for voter fraud.
It’s a truly BRILLIANT plan, I’d say.
All ya’all libtards have a nice day now, ya’ hear?
I am so sick of stupid democraps the are 8n office that cat like stupid little spoiled children. Trump is doing a great job bringing them out in the open. He is standing up for us we the people and they cant stand that. GROW UP AND GET OVER IT OR GET ANOTHER JOB. GOID LORD ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Tulose where’s my vote? When I called I asked why my vote was in one county, when I voted in another. I have the letter that was sent to me from your office. No more cheating. It’s gonna stop.
How dare the orange man stop us from cheating! — SUE HIM!!!!
Tough shit.
If she did her job and secured our elections properly then Trump wouldn’t have needed to issue an order.
It is evident the left wants everything their way but never gives anything in return….ok..we should be able to buy liquor without i.d…we should be able to buy guns/ammo without i.d. ,like i did at the age of 13 …or drive without a license….or…they love “democracy, it is mob rule, the reason we are a Constitutional Republic.
Is there really voter fraud in NM? Let me tell you my story, back in 2006, and again in 2008, the company I had been working for had me working out of state in PA during the time of the elections noted. When I moved within the State of NM, I went on line to update my voter info. I have been a NM resident since 1998, this was the only within the State. I updated my address, I then checked voter history. I found that, according to the SoS’s office, I had voted in both of these elections, in person.
My believe that NM, the State, has been complicit in voter fraud.
According to the Constitution, the only aspect of federal elections left exclusively to the state is the location of the elections, the Congress has first say in all other aspects.
But this EO doesn’t directly affect state election procedures, it directs the USPS to define and enforce regulations for a specific type of mail.
States have no say on internal USPS regulations.