Trump to order voter ID for every vote, ‘no exceptions’

US president is seeking to overhaul country’s electoral system, falsely claiming his 2020 nonaccomplishment was a effect of fraud.

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to motion an enforcement bid requiring elector recognition from each voter.

“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!,” Trump said connected his Truth Social level connected Saturday.

“Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military,” helium added.

The announcement comes arsenic Trump seeks to overhaul the electoral strategy successful the US implicit mendacious claims that his 2020 nonaccomplishment to Democratic President Joe Biden was the effect of wide fraud.

The president and his Republican allies besides person made baseless claims astir wide voting by non-citizens, which is amerciable and seldom occurs.

For years, helium has called for the extremity of physics voting machines, pushing alternatively for the usage of insubstantial ballots and manus counts, a process that predetermination officials accidental is time-consuming, costly and acold little close than instrumentality counting.

In March this year, Trump signed a sweeping enforcement bid that included requirements for documentary impervious of citizenship to ballot successful national elections and for each ballots to beryllium received by Election Day.

A justice successful April blocked parts of that order, including the proof-of-citizenship requirement, saying that the US Constitution gives the powerfulness to modulate national elections to states and Congress – not the president.

Trump, meanwhile, pledged to besides contented an enforcement bid to extremity the usage of mail-in ballots and voting machines up of the 2026 midterm elections.

The November 3, 2026, elections volition beryllium the archetypal nationwide referendum connected Trump’s home and overseas policies since helium returned to powerfulness successful January. Democrats volition beryllium seeking to interruption the Republicans’ grip connected some the House of Representatives and the Senate to artifact Trump’s home agenda.