President Trump said he will launch a movement to end mail-in voting and phase out electronic voting machines, pledging to take executive action before the 2026 midterm elections.
In a Truth Social post, Trump called mail-in ballots and voting machines “highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial,” contrasting them with cheaper, more secure watermark paper ballots. He argued that paper ballots would provide immediate and indisputable election results.
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting. All others gave it up because of the massive voter fraud encountered,” Trump wrote, promising to begin the effort through an executive order. He added that the states serve as “an agent for the federal government” in counting and tabulating votes and “must do what the federal government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, for the good of our country.”
Trump accused Democrats of relying on mail-in ballots to win elections, citing issues like “open borders” and “woke” policies that he said made them “virtually unelectable without using this completely disproven mail-in scam.”
Declaring that “elections can never be honest with mail-in ballots,” Trump vowed that he and the Republican Party will “fight like hell to bring honesty and integrity back to our elections.” He ended his statement by urging immediate action to end mail-in voting and electronic machines, writing, “Without fair and honest elections, and strong and powerful borders, you don’t have even a semblance of a country.”
