President Donald Trump said he plans to issue an executive order requiring voter identification for all United States elections in a post shared on his Truth Social account Saturday (August 30) night.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!! President DJT,” Trump wrote.
Trump has long been critical of mail-in voting, as record numbers of mail-in ballots were placed in favor of former President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with Trump falsely claiming that Biden benefitted from widespread fraud. The president’s Republican allies have echoed his sentiments, as he’s also called to end electronic voting machines, instead pushing for paper ballots and hand counts, which election officials have argued is time-consuming, costly and would be less accurate compared to machine counting.
Trump had previously pledged to issue an executive order to end mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, however, federal elections are administered at the state level and it’s unclear whether he’d have the constitutional power to do so. The 2026 midterm elections will be the first nationwide referendum on Trump’s domestic and foreign policies since the beginning of his second presidential term in January.
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