United States President Donald Trump wants to change the way Americans vote, and he wants to do it before the 2026 midterms.

US presidents do not have the authority to overhaul state election laws. The US Constitution leaves congressional election management to states and rule-making to Congress.

That hasn’t stopped Trump from taking a top-down approach to altering election practices a year out from the November 3 elections – contests that will determine whether Trump has congressional support for his agenda, including his immigration enforcement tactics and tax and spending cuts.

Here are some of the ways Trump is pressuring states and Congress to change how those elections will go:

Trump resumed his attacks on voting by mail, threatening in August to use an executive order to write a

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