US President Donald Trump announced Monday that he intends to spearhead a “movement to eliminate mail-in voting,” renewing his long-standing claims of electoral fraud despite never conceding his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden.
In a lengthy statement on Truth Social, Trump said he would push to abolish both mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, arguing that traditional watermark paper ballots are cheaper, more reliable, and leave “no doubt about who won or lost the election.”
The president also pledged to sign an executive order aimed at “ensuring the integrity of the November 2026 midterm elections,” though he offered no details about the measure. Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats of “cheating like never before,” insisting that mail-in voting was central to his loss in 2020.
Election law experts and civil rights groups criticized his earlier March executive order tightening restrictions on voter registration and mail-in voting, calling it an overreach of presidential power. UCLA law professor Rick Hasen described the move as an “executive coup,” while advocacy groups vowed to challenge it in court.
Trump also argued that states are merely “agents of the federal government” when it comes to vote counting, insisting that the president should have authority over election procedures—a claim legal scholars say conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, which grants states broad control over administering federal elections.
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