{"id":44371,"date":"2025-08-18T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-vows-to-try-banning-mail-in-voting-before-2026-midterm-elections-can-he-do-that\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:26:53","slug":"trump-vows-to-try-banning-mail-in-voting-before-2026-midterm-elections-can-he-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-vows-to-try-banning-mail-in-voting-before-2026-midterm-elections-can-he-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vows to try banning mail-in voting before 2026 midterm elections \u2014 can he do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/map-early-voting-mail-ballot-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mail-in ballots<\/a><\/span>,&#8221; he said during an Oval Office\u00a0 meeting with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-white-house-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a><\/span>. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to start with an executive order that&#8217;s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Why does Trump want to ban mail-in ballots?<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Mail-in ballots are corrupt,&#8221; the president said. He suggested the method is susceptible to voter fraud, claiming in California, &#8220;it&#8217;s so corrupt, where some people get five, six, seven ballots delivered to them.&#8221; He has often <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-mail-in-voting-ballot-drop-boxes\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">insisted<\/a><\/span> mail-in ballots can be tampered with or enable people to vote multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>But soon after the 2020 election, Debra Cleaver, founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VoteAmerica<\/a>, a nonpartisan voter information site, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/presidential-election-2020-conspiracy-theories-debunked\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">dismissed<\/a><\/span> the idea of widespread voter fraud as &#8220;a myth.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outgoing ballots have a barcode, and then when you send your ballot in, you put it in a return envelope and that barcode has to match the barcode that was sent out in order for the ballot to be counted,&#8221; she explained to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>After that election, the director of the nation&#8217;s cyber security agency, Christopher Krebs, called the 2020 vote &#8220;the most secure in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, when Mr. Trump won the presidential election, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2025\/2024-presidential-election-voting-registration-tables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Census Bureau said<\/a> nearly a third of ballots nationwide were cast by mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s impending executive order to stop mail voting \u2014 would it be legal?<\/h2>\n<p>In a social media post earlier in the day, the president said of the impending order that it would &#8220;help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the states &#8220;are merely an &#8216;agent&#8217; for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,&#8221; and that &#8220;[t]hey must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Article I, Section 4 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution-conan\/article-1\/section-4\/clause-1\/states-and-the-elections-clause#:~:text=prev%20%7C%20next,%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%9333%20(1995))).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Constitution<\/a> says it&#8217;s the states that have the authority to regulate elections, not the president, and this may be changed only by Congress.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump claims U.S. is the only country that uses mail-in voting. Is that true?<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Trump also claimed, &#8220;We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting&#8221; and argued, &#8220;You will never have an honest election if you have mail-in. And it&#8217;s time that the Republicans get tough and stop it, because the Democrats want it. It&#8217;s the only way they can get elected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, more than 30 other countries allow voting by mail for some or all voters, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idea.int\/data-tools\/tools\/special-voting-arrangements\/postal-in-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance<\/a>, an intergovernmental advocacy group based in Sweden. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.ca\/voting-by-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canada<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/apply-postal-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United Kingdom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ch\/en\/votes-and-elections\/elections\/where-and-when-to-vote#swiss-citizens-living-abroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Switzerland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundeswahlleiterin.de\/en\/service\/glossar\/b\/briefwahl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.im.dk\/advance-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denmark<\/a> are among them.<\/p>\n<h2>Mail-in voting in the U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>In the U.S., mail voting is widespread: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/elections-and-campaigns\/table-1-states-with-no-excuse-absentee-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">28 states<\/a> allow any voter to request a mail-in ballot, while the rest require a a documented reason such as illness or military service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic gave mail voting a huge boost in the 2020 elections. About 43% of voters cast their ballot by mail that year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eac.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-06\/2024_EAVS_Report_508c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> by the Election Assistance Commission. In 2024, mail voting dropped off, representing just over 30% of the total votes cast \u2014 about 46.8 million votes. The commission said that last year&#8217;s numbers still exceeded pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of mail-in voting came up during Mr. Trump&#8217;s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday, too. After the two met Friday, the president told Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity that &#8220;Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said, &#8216;You can&#8217;t have an honest election, election with mail-in voting.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;There&#8217;s not a country in the world that uses it now.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said the two talked about the 2020 election and that Putin told him, &#8220;You won that election by so much, and that&#8217;s (mail voting) how [Biden] got it.&#8221; Audits and investigations, including some conducted by Trump supporters and Republican secretaries of state, showed no evidence that the 2020 election results were inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation &amp; Research, pointed out in a statement to CBS News that mail-in voting has been around since the Civil War and said getting rid of mail voting &#8220;is an incredibly bad idea that would make our elections much less secure and vulnerable to interference.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requiring states to eliminate or replace the voting machines that confirmed the election of this president, just 15 months before a midterm election and less than a year before primaries, is not possible and would result in chaos,&#8221; said Becker, who is also a CBS News election law contributor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Sara Cook and Jenna Gibson Riggins contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/laura-doan\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Laura  Doan<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Laura Doan is a fact checker for CBS News Confirmed. 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