President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier.
“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 18 Truth Social post.
His post echoed grievances about mail-in voting he had aired days earlier in his interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska, Trump told Hannity that Putin said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was “rigged” because of mail-in voting. It wasn’t. Trump lost that election. Officials in his own administration told him that.
Hours after his post, Trump slightly softened his language during a White House meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“And do you know that we’re the only country in the world — I believe, I may be wrong — but just about the only country in the world that uses (mail-in voting) because of what’s happened, massive fraud all over the place,” Trump said.
Mail-in voting provides more opportunity for fraud than in-person voting researchers say, but it’s still rare, and election officials have safeguards in place.
Trump said during his Aug. 18 White House remarks that his administration is preparing an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they’re corrupt.”
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