Trump Executive Order on Mail-in Voting — Federal Judge Declines to Block

This is a critical constitutional event scoring maximum on election integrity (5/5) with compounding severity multipliers. A federal court declining to block executive restrictions on mail-in voting represents direct federal intervention in election administration with potentially permanent structural effects on voting access. The mechanism (election_admin_change) carries the highest modifier (1.15), and all severity dimensions score maximum (1.3) because changes to voting methods are difficult to reverse, create durable barriers, and establish dangerous precedent for executive control over election procedures. While generating moderate media attention (B=41), the governance harm vastly exceeds the hype.