The president of the United States, Donald Trump, committed himself on Monday to issue an executive order to end the use of ballots by mail and voting machines before the mid -period elections of 2026, a measure that probably causes legal challenges by the states.
“I will lead a movement to get rid of the tickets by mail, and also, while we are in that, very” inaccurate “, very expensive and seriously controversial voting machines,” he wrote in a publication on social networks.
Trump, who has promoted the false narration that he, not a Democrat Joe Biden, won the 2020 elections, has questioned the security of the tickets by mail and urged his republicans to strive more to review the voting system of the United States.
However, some Republican states, such as Florida, have adopted vote by mail as a safe and convenient way to expand the participation of voters. Trump voted by mail in some previous elections and urged his supporters to do so for the 2024 presidential elections.
The tickets by mail reached high records in the United States in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic as the states expand options for voters, but the numbers fell in 2024, according to the United States Electoral Assistance Commission.
According to the Commission, more than two thirds of the voters in the general elections of 2024 were launched in person, while around three out of 10 tickets were cast through the vote by mail, according to the commission.
Trump’s comments continue their meeting with their Russian counterpart on Friday, after which Trump said Vladimir Putin agreed with him at the end of the vote by mail.
Each of the 50 US states. Uu. Directs the elections separately, but Trump warned them to comply.
“Remember, the states are simply an” agent “for the federal government by counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them that, for the good of the country, they do,” Trump wrote.
Trump repeated the false claim on Monday that the United States is the only country that allows mail vote.
Almost three dozen countries from Canada to Germany and South Korea allow some form of postal vote, although more than half of them impose some restrictions on which voters qualify, according to the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance based in Sweden, an intergovernmental defense group.
Trump previously signed an executive order of March 25 aimed at elections that have been blocked by the courts after the states led by the Democrats demanded.
