More than one year from the 2026 midterms, and without any evidence of extensive voter fraud, President Donald Trump said Monday he wants states to dump the machines used to electronically record and calculate votes.

In a post to his own Truth Social platform, Trump said voting machines have been “highly inaccurate” and “seriously controversial.”

Although the 88 counties in Ohio own and use different machines, every county has an either entirely electronic system or some combination of electronic tabulation with a paper ballot or paper audit trail, according to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office.

Counties had to opt in as many as 20 years ago to begin using the machines.

But just last week, LaRose killed an effort in two rural Ohio counties to move away from them. Residents of Mo

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