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Trump Intensifies Campaign Against Mail-in Voting
Facing legal limits on executive orders, Trump plans to seek congressional legislation to ban mail-in voting and voting machines amid claims of widespread election fraud.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social attacking mail-in voting and voting machines, vowing to issue an executive order banning both nationwide.
- The America First Policy Institute declared it supports Trump to restore voter confidence and end what supporters call a mail-in ballot "scheme", while Trump framed mail-in voting as central to his Monday post.
- After quick legal pushback, the White House shifted, with Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, saying the administration would seek legislation rather than executive action to restrict voting.
- The administration has directed federal government departments to collect state voter registration data and has sent federal troops into American cities, with a prospect of deploying ICE and other federal agents into Philadelphia or Milwaukee around Election Day.
- Legal experts warned Trump lacks authority to unilaterally control elections, as Congress alone regulates federal election rules; critics say his goal is to delegitimize losses by claiming Democrats cheat.
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Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites
“Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations, amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections,” ProPublica reports. “The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, came one day after President Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots.”
Mary Ellen Klas: Abolishing voting by mail will hurt Republicans more than help
If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media recently, it would almost certainly be unconstitutional. It would also be baffling — because eliminating vote-by-mail would probably…
Does Trump have the power to end mail-in voting? Legal scholar weighs in
With control of Congress at stake in the 2026 midterm elections, Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting. In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who voted cast their ballots by mail. Despite a multimillion-dollar Republican push to encourage supporters to vote by mail, Trump says it’s a fraud. John Yang speaks with legal scholar Rick Hasen for more.
President Donald Trump intends to lead the end of the mail vote and the voting machines he described as "inexact," "very expensive," and "controversial." The announcement was made by the Republican in a message in which he advanced that he will sign an executive order to push the bill forward.
John Turley: Who controls elections? It isn't the president (Opinion)
Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the president should have broad authority to change how elections are conducted, particularly when it comes to abolishing mail-in voting and voting machines. As recently as this month, Trump pledged to issue an executive…
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