Trump signs new executive order to change election rules: What we know

The order says voters must provide proof of US citizenship and only ballots received by Election Day will be counted.

“This would prevent only a tiny amount of noncitizen voter registration but stop millions of eligible voters, who do not have easy access to documents such as passports, from registering to vote,” Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a blog post.

There are also concerns that married women who have changed their last names may face difficulties registering to vote, as their birth certificates reflect their maiden names.

The advocacy group Public Citizen pointed out that roughly 146 million Americans do not have a passport. READ MORE from Al Jazeera