Executive Order Restricting Vote-by-Mail

This scores maximum on constitutional damage due to direct federal interference in election administration—a core separation of powers violation. The executive branch lacks constitutional authority to restrict state-administered voting methods, making this both a separation of powers crisis (score: 5) and an election integrity threat (score: 5). The severity multipliers are maximal (1.3 each) because this creates durable precedent for executive control of elections and would require litigation/legislation to reverse. While genuinely outrageous, the B-score remains moderate because the governance harm vastly exceeds any distraction value.