President Donald Trump announced plans to lead a movement to eliminate mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. On Monday (August 18), Trump posted on Truth Social, claiming that mail-in ballots compromise election integrity and stating, "Elections can never be honest with mail-in ballots/voting, and everybody, in particular the Democrats, knows this." He vowed to sign an executive order to assist in rolling back mail-in voting and to target voting machines, advocating for the use of watermark paper ballots instead.
Trump's opposition to mail-in voting is not new. He has consistently argued that the practice contributed to what he claims was election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. However, these claims have been repeatedly debunked by courts, which found no ev