EO's can't be applied to force states to do what you want. Trump is federal. Elections are controlled by states. The federal government has no say in how they're conducted.

I understand why it's this way; it's to keep the federal government from interfering and rigging it their way. It's a good idea. On paper. But for the federal government to have no say in the way their own elections are done is kind of bullshit. The federal government should have some kind of oversight or say on the same level as the states. If we had that, we would have seen more progress.

But an EO wasn't going to do anything. You can't FORCE sovereign states to do things. For example; Biden's mask mandate only applies to federal buildings. His fracking ban only applies to federal land. He can't tell the states that they can't frack on private land or state owned land. What an EO CAN do is say 'we don't like this and if you keep it up, we're going to with hold federal funding to your state.' But what does that really do? It makes you look like a tyrant and you're purposefully hurting the citizens of that state to get what you want. Biden would do that, but Trump wouldn't. I think Trump cares too much about the people he is charged with protecting to do that.

That's Trump's fatal flaw. He cares too much about the people.