Crickets. That's what you probably heard from the media on Thursday afternoon about election security after President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting for the media. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during the meeting that she was investigating possible security flaws in election voting and tabulating systems.

Controversial legislation making its way through Congress would require voters to first prove U.S. citizenship.

Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity of state voting laws.

The EO requires Americans to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote. It also seeks to upend well-established state procedures for counting ballots.

House Republicans for a second time passed a stand-alone bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states. The

Nineteen Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote. In

Like many of Trump’s initiatives, his election reform plan pushes boundaries and relies on creative legal interpretations of current law. The Constitution gives the states the power to set the “time, places and manner” of their own elections, while allowing Congress to pass election guidelines that override state legislation.

But a few months later, Gabbard voted in the 2024 general election back in Hawaii. Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home ...