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President Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order that requires all voters to have voter identification. An announcement following his move in March calls for evidence of citizenship in the federal election and unfounded claims of voter fraud claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
“Voter IDs must be part of every vote. There are no exceptions! I will make an executive order for that purpose!!!” Trump said on August 30 in Truth Society.
Trump has long questioned the US election system and has continued to falsely argue that his 2020 defeat to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud. The president and his Republican allies have also made unfounded claims about widespread votes by non-citizens. It is illegal and rarely happens.
For years, he has been seeking an end to electronic voting machines, and instead seeking paper voting and using fees. The process that election officials say is time-consuming, costly and far more accurate than machine counting.
At the beginning of August, he said he would sign an executive order to abolish mail-in voting to bring integrity to the 2026 midterm elections.
Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on August 15 that Putin told him, “You can’t vote honestly by mail.”
“He said, ‘You have mail-in votes so your election was geared up,'” Trump told Hannity.
Voters usually use email-in voting if they are traveling or if they want to avoid waiting in line at the polling station on the day of election. Election security officials say the president will not play a role in overseeing the election.
But Trump has long won for mail-in votes that are vulnerable to fraud. Despite election experts, including experts from his first administration, he said mail-in voting is safe.
The November 3rd, 2026 election will be the first national referendum on Trump’s domestic and foreign policy since returning to power in January. Democrats are trying to break Republican grips against both the House and Senate to block Trump’s domestic agenda.
In March, Trump signed an executive order to overhaul how elections will take place across the country, including establishing new voter identification requirements to prove U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections. Non-US citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal elections.
However, under the order, the nationwide mail voter registration form requires applicants to provide a US passport, an actual ID driver’s license or state-issued card that complies with actual standards, or provide a “valid federal or state-issued photo identification.”
Contributors: Joey Garrison and Burt Janssen, USA Today; Reuters
