Republican President’s government report praises biometrics and criticizes voting in the United States
The President of the United States, Donald Trump (Republican), signed on Tuesday (25.mar.2025) a decree with praise to the Brazilian electoral system that alters electoral rules of the country in an offensive to demand that voters prove to be US citizens.
According to the document, the measures were taken to strengthen the verification of voter citizenship and prohibit “Foreign citizens to interfere with US elections”.
Here’s the changes:
- “The Electoral Assistance Commission will require documentary evidence issued by the US citizenship in its voter registration forms;
- “Agencies such as the Department of Internal Security, Social Security Management and the State Department must provide states access to federal databases to verify the eligibility and citizenship of individuals to vote;
- “o attorney general [chefe do Departamento de Justiça] It will prioritize the voting process of non-citizens and related crimes, including through the use of records of the internal security department and coordination with state attorneys. ”
In 2020, when he was defeated at the polls by Joe Biden (Democrat), Trump that the election was framed. One of the allegations was that illegal immigrants would have participated in the electoral process – which is not allowed.
“Without the proper application of federal laws, illegal vote, discrimination, fraud and other forms of misconduct and error dilute the votes of legal US citizens”says the text.
Praise to Brazil
The decree, published on the website of, says that Brazil has more rigid security rules than those of the US, such as the requirement of biometric identification to vote. India was also mentioned for the same reason. This is a (PDF – 83 kb).
“Brazil and India link the voter’s identification to a biometric database, while the United States depend widely on citizenship self -declaration.”says the report.
Reproduction/White House – 25.mar.2025
In US elections, states allow, to vote, the voter only declares to be a citizen. In Brazil, in addition to a regularized voter title, it is necessary, in many cases, the registration of biometrics.
The document also criticizes the mail vote in the US. According to the text, countries such as Denmark and Sweden only allow this type of vote in specific cases and do not accept banknotes received after election day.
