Trump Issues Update on Future of Mail-in Ballots, Voting Machines for 2026 [View all]
President Donald Trump said he will issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a move that would inevitably spark legal challenges by the states.
Trump, who has long argued that mail-in ballots and voting machines are vulnerable to election fraud, though evidence of it happening in practice in the U.S. is scant, made the announcement in a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday morning, August 18.
Democrats support mail-in balloting because it widens access to voting to people who struggle or are unable to vote in person, such as the elderly and disabled, and say ending it would effectively disenfranchise a large number of voters.
But Trump and the Republicans say there is a substantial risk of electoral fraud from mail-in voting and that voting machines could be hacked by malactors.
"I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election," Trump wrote.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-2026-midterms-mail-ballots-voting-machines-2114934
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