Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order ahead of next year’s midterm elections and said he would lead “a movement” that targeted mail-in vote and voting machines across the country.
“I want to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballot papers, and also while we are at it, very” inaccurate, “very expensive and seriously controversial voting machines,” he wrote in a social media post without providing evidence.
“We will begin this effort, which will be strongly opposite by the Democrats because they are cheating on levels that have never been seen before by signing a executive order to help bring honesty to the midway venue in 2026,” he added.
Trump, a Republican, previously signed a 2 on March 25, targeting the election of elections that have been blocked by the courts after democratically led states defendant.
States drive election separately in each of the 50 US states, but Trump warned them to comply.
“Remember that states are only an” agent “for the federal government in counting and losing votes. They must do what the federal government represented by the president of the United States tells them, to the benefit of our country,” Trump wrote.
The Republican President’s comments follow his meeting with his Russian counterpart Friday, with Trump saying that Vladimir Putin agreed with him to end the mail-in vote.
Trump, who promoted the false tale that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, won the 2020 election, has long been pushing his co -Republicans to try harder to review the US voting system.
He also voted per. Post on some previous elections and urged its supporters to do so in 2024.
