US EditionTrump Vows Executive Order to End Mail-In Ballots and Replace Voting Machines
- President Donald Trump announced on August 19, 2025, he will lead a movement to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines before the 2026 midterm election.
- Trump's plan follows his repeated claims that mail-in ballots caused massive voting fraud in the 2020 election, despite officials stating voter fraud is rare.
- Local election officials, including Spokane County Auditor Vicky Dalton and Whitman County Elections Auditor Sandy Jamison, warned eliminating mail-in voting would reduce turnout and hurt rural accessibility.
- Trump criticized voting machines as unreliable, costly, and contentious, stating they are priced at ten times the cost of precise and advanced watermark paper ballots, which he asserted provide clear and definitive election results.
- Legal experts anticipate lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Trump's executive order, and Senate Democrats vowed to block any efforts that restrict voter access.
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Josh Shapiro blasts Trump’s threat to ban mail-in voting
President Donald Trump is trying to ban mail-in voting, but Gov. Josh Shapiro says that won’t happen in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro defiantly criticized President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is preparing to sign an executive order banning mail-in voting prior to the 2026 midterm elections. “ Donald Trump can sign whatever the hell executive orders he wants to sign and make a show out of whatever he wants, but he can’t ch…
By Daniel Dale, CNN President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about the election in a social media post Monday, pledging to “lead a movement to eliminate mail-in ballots” and voting machines, including an erroneous claim that states should run elections at the president’s direction. Below is a fact-check of some of Trump’s comments: “We are now the only country in the world using mail-in voting. Everyone else has abandoned it due to m…
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