States are examining any potential authority the president would have with his announced intent to issue an executive order to ban voting by mail.

President Donald Trump said Monday on camera and later online that he’s “going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots … and voting machines,” all in an effort to bring, in his words, “honesty” to the 2026 midterm elections.

“We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” Trump said Monday in the Oval Office.

The president claimed he can ban states from using mail-in-ballots and more because “the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes.”

Policy experts, constitutional scholars and elections administrators cite the U.S. Constitutio

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