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S.D. Attorney General Joins Challenge Of Biden’s Election Executive Order

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PIERRE, S.D. โ€“ South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined Attorneys General from seven other states in challenging a Presidential Executive Order that would encroach on the Statesโ€™ authority to regulate voter registration.

Executive Order 14019, signed by President Biden, creates a federal bureaucracy that serves as a voter registration organization. The Attorneys General argue that the plan creates a bureaucracy that violates the U.S. Constitution and exceeds the executive branchโ€™s authority. The challenge states that voter registration is a state function and responsibility.

โ€œThis is an election integrity issue and another overreach by the federal government against the States,โ€ said Attorney General Marty Jackley. โ€œFederal agencies should not become instruments for the Biden Administrationโ€™s partisan voter registration drive.  South Dakota Secretary of State Johnson and County Auditors should not be subject to federal interference in their duties regarding voter registration and our elections.โ€

South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson also opposes the Executive Order. โ€œIโ€™m proud to represent South Dakota and join Attorney General Marty Jackley in support of this lawsuit and the fight to protect election integrity,โ€ she said.

Other Attorneys General joining the challenge are from the states of: Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

The challenge can be readย here: