US President Donald Trump said on the 30th (local time) that he would obligatorily confirm the ID cards of all voters in all elections.
President Trump tweeted on social media that day: "All votes must include voter ID." "No exceptions."
He added: “Voting by mail is prohibited except for seriously ill people and remote soldiers.”
This is one of President Trump's attempts to shake the American electoral system after he lost to President Biden in the 2020 election. After 's defeat, he has been claiming to "manipulate the vote".
Earlier, President Trump issued an executive order in March this year, allowing only voters who prove that they are American citizens to register. Voter confirmation will also be conducted on this voting day.
Newsweek said: “If you have to carry a voter’s identity card, it will have a huge impact on millions of Americans, especially those states that allow them to vote without a photo attached.”
Newsweek pointed out that it is unclear whether the president has the constitutional authority to require states to provide voter ID cards.
President Trump also said on the 18th that he would bring honesty to the midterm elections in 2026 by leading the “abolition of mail voting” and signing an executive order.
US President Donald Trump said on the 18th (local time): "I will lead the movement to abolish mail-in voting." Once again ignited the conspiracy theory about his defeat in the 2020 general election.
On the same day, President Trump wrote on his own social media: "We will start this strong opposition effort, because the Democratic Party will cheat at an unprecedented level."
He also added: "We will sign executive orders to bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections."
"We will take this opportunity to dismantle a very inaccurate, very expensive and highly controversial voting machine that costs 10 times more than accurate, sophisticated watermarking paper. Watermarking paper leaves no doubt about who wins and loses faster after the election," President Trump wrote in a post that day.
Trump said: “Remember that states are just agents of the federal government, making charts by calculating votes, they should obey the federal government represented by the President of the United States.”
Trump also said in the post that states are just “agents” of the federal government in terms of counting votes, and they must do so in accordance with the instructions of the federal government represented by the president. But legal experts say that under the U.S. Constitution, states are responsible for managing federal elections, and only Congress has the power to regulate the way each state is elected. Law experts at the University of New York say, “From a constitutional level, the president has no power to instruct the states in what way national elections are held.”
According to Reuters, the latest Ipsos poll shows that Trump's approval rating has remained at 40% in recent weeks, the lowest level since he returned to the White House. Hispanic voters have a particularly depressed evaluation of him. The British "Economist" magazine said that Trump took advantage of the wave of economic pessimism to be re-elected as president. He once promised voters that during his second term,"income will soar, inflation will completely disappear, employment will recover strongly, and the middle class has ushered in unprecedented prosperity." But so far, voters have been disappointed.