Donald Trump Promises To Sign Order Mandating Voter I.D.: ‘NO EXCEPTIONS!’

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will sign an executive order mandating voter I.D. for “Every Single Vote.”

Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday evening that his executive order on voter I.D. would have “NO EXCEPTIONS!” He added that he would also take action to stop most voting by mail.

“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!” the president posted.

Thirty-six states currently require some form of identification to be presented when voting, although the specific requirements vary by state. Of those 36, 25 require a photo ID, while the other 11 do not specifically require photo identification. The remaining 14 states – which include deep-blue states such as California, Illinois, and New York – do not require identification to vote on Election Day.

Trump earlier this month agitated against mail-in voting, promising to “lead a movement” to ban it. He also railed against “Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES” in an August 18 post on his social media site, Truth.

“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED,” he wrote at the time. “WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”

The president said that Democrats are “virtually Unelectable” without mail-in voting.

“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS,” he wrote.

In the 2024 election, roughly 30% of votes were cast by mail, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Most votes were cast in person, either during early voting or on the day of the election.

“The majority of voters in the 2024 general election cast their ballots in person, with 35.2% voting in person before Election Day and 37.4% voting in person on Election Day,” the commission wrote in a report on the 2024 election. “Mail voting comprised 30.3% of the turnout for the 2024 election, which is down from the high water mark for mail voting seen in 2020 (43%) but still larger than the percentage of the electorate that voted by mail in pre-pandemic elections.”