Overview

• The White House says attorneys are drafting an executive order to prohibit mailed ballots and electronic tabulation ahead of next year’s elections, though no text or timing has been released.
• Federal courts blocked Trump’s March 25 order that targeted how states count late-arriving, postmarked ballots, ruling he lacked authority to set state election rules.
• Election law experts emphasize that states control election administration under the Constitution, and courts and officials have found no evidence of widespread fraud in mail voting.
• Roughly one-third of ballots in 2024 were cast by mail, and voting‑access groups warn a ban would especially affect elderly, disabled, and overseas or military voters.
• Trump linked his push to remarks he says Vladimir Putin made and asserted the U.S. is unique in using postal voting, claims contradicted by data showing dozens of countries permit it.