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Trump has long questioned the U.S. electoral system and falsely claimed his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was due to widespread fraud. He also made baseless claims about non-citizen voting, which is illegal and rare.
For years, Trump advocated for the end of electronic voting machines, pushing instead for paper ballots and hand counts—a process election officials say is time-consuming, costly, and less accurate than machine counting.
Earlier in August, he pledged to issue an executive order to end mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. However, federal elections are managed at the state level, making it unclear whether the president has the constitutional authority to implement such a measure.
The November 3, 2026, elections will be the first nationwide referendum on Trump’s domestic and foreign policies since his return to power in January. Democrats aim to regain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to block Trump’s domestic agenda.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Jamie Freed and Michael Perry)
