Trump vows to require voter ID in future elections
Trump pledges executive order mandating voter ID and restricting mail-in voting before the 2026 midterms.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he will issue an executive order requiring every voter to present identification, News.Az informs via TRT World.
"Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!," Trump said on Truth Social.
"Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military," he added.
Trump has long questioned the US electoral system and continues to falsely claim that his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud.
For years, he has also called for the end of electronic voting machines, pushing instead for the use of paper ballots and hand counts — a process that election officials say is time-consuming, costly and far less accurate than machine counting.
Earlier in August, Trump pledged to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. However, federal elections are administered at the state level and it is unclear whether the president has the constitutional power to enact such a measure.
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