NEW: Trump To Sign EO Requiring Voter ID In Elections

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will be signing a sweeping executive order aimed at curing up election integrity and mandating voter ID in all U.S. elections.

“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!!! President DJT,” the president posted on Truth Social.

Trump previously attempted to implement mandatory voter ID as part of a broader action on election integrity. In April, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down the portions of that order that related to voter ID.

“Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would affect many of the changes the President purports to order,” the Clinton-appointed judge found at the time. “No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.”

Bother voter ID and sureing up noncitizen voting enforcement have long been popular policy positions among voters. According to a poll from Gallup taken just before the 2024 presidential election, 84 percent of U.S. adults were in favor of requiring voters to show identification while 83 percent supported requiring proof of citizenship when registering for the first time.

Such policies are also popular along party lines, with 67 percent of Democrats and 84 percent of independents expressing support for mandatory voter ID. Among Republicans support is near unanimous, with 98 percent of respondents expressing support.

The breakdown on proof of citizenship requirements was similar, with 66 percent of Democrats, 84 percent of Independents and 96 percent of Republicans supporting the idea.

Action on election integrity and voter ID laws in particular have long been a focus of President Trump’s agenda. “The system, it’s not a question of being broken — the system is corrupt,” Trump told Breitbart News.

“It’s a corrupt system. A mail-in ballot will always be corrupt. When you go to a polling location and they want your identification and everything, the way — you can’t really vote unless it’s a legit deal. If you have mail-in ballots, nobody has any idea where it’s coming from or where it’s going to and then it travels through so many hands. Jimmy Carter came out a long time ago with a number of highly respected people and they wrote something, and the one thing that come out loud and clear is that mail-in ballots are corrupt. France had it, a lot of countries had it and they went away from it now.”