President Trump Pushes Same-Day Voting, Voter Identification and Paper Ballots

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for reelection in 2022, he laid out a “platform of national greatness” that included ending “election crimes” by returning to “same-day voting, voter identification and paper ballots.” Now that he has returned to office, President Trump is starting to make good on these promises.

On August 18, he announced on Truth Social that he plans to “lead a movement” to get rid of both voting machines and mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

Executive action: “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they’re corrupt,” President Trump said on Monday. “And it’s time that the Republicans get tough and stop it because the Democrats want it. It’s the only way they can get elected.”

Mail-in ballots are hard to verify, so Democrats have made a concerted effort to flood ballot boxes with as many mail-in ballots as possible. This has added a high level of uncertainty to election results across the nation and contributed greatly to the 3 million unverified ballots cast in the 2020 election.

Voting machines: President Trump also said he would target voting machines, favoring paper ballots instead.

President Trump wants to secure America’s elections and protect the vote, restoring the integrity of our elections by requiring voter ID, ensuring no illegal ballots are cast, and preventing cheating through lax and incompetent voting laws in states like California and New York.
—Harrison Fields, special assistant to the president

More than 90 percent of voters use machines manufactured by only three companies: Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software and Hart InterCivic. Malfunctioning—or malicious—hardware or software in these machines could dramatically change the results of an election. And it would take only a small number of people to pull off such a heist.

Saving America: Seven years ago, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote that if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election, it would have meant the “end to our constitutional republic!” He based this assessment largely on the Democratic Party’s control of America’s electoral system.

By pushing for same-day voting, voter identification and paper ballots, President Trump is endeavoring to make sure America remains a constitutional republic.

Learn more: Read “The Republic Has Been Hacked.”