President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.

"We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots ," he said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy . "We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots."

Why does Trump want to ban mail-in ballots?

"Mail-in ballots are corrupt," the president said. He suggested the method is susceptible to voter fraud, claiming in California, "it's so corrupt, where some people get five, six, seven ballots delive

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