“Veterans served to defend a country where every citizen has a voice” TCN Condemns Sweeping Election Power Grab

ATLANTA, GA  – The Chamberlain Network condemns the Trump Administration’s most recent Executive Order – Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections – a sweeping order which consolidates executive power over elections.  This order will disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters, including members of the military and their families serving overseas.  

“This power grab by the federal government will make it harder for veterans, military families, and millions of other Americans to vote,” said Chris Purdy, Founder and CEO of The Chamberlain Network. “It targets people who move often, vote by mail, or don’t have the right paperwork on hand - this describes the average military family. This isn’t how a healthy democracy works. Veterans served to defend a country where every citizen has a voice.”

This Executive Order is a direct attack on the way our elections are supposed to function—free from centralized control, accessible to all eligible citizens, and administered by the states. It imposes harsh new documentation requirements, blocks the counting of absentee ballots received after Election Day, and hands sweeping authority to federal agencies, including Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, to comb through state voter rolls. These actions will especially harm service members, military spouses, and overseas voters who rely on the very systems this order would dismantle. This is not election integrity—it’s voter suppression dressed up in executive authority.

The Chamberlain Network views this order as a dangerous escalation of executive overreach. It ignores the limits of presidential power, threatens the nonpartisan role of the Election Assistance Commission, and undermines the Constitution’s clear assignment of election administration to the states. Our elections are not the property of any one administration. They belong to the American people. Veterans understand the danger of unchecked power—and we won’t stay silent while that power is used to silence voters.