08.18.25

Cantwell Statement on Trump’s Plan To Ban Mail-In Voting

EDMONDS, WA – Today, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he plans to sign an executive order that would eliminate mail-in voting, as well as some in-person voting machines.

 

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement:

 

“We can’t be for suppressing the vote. Vote-by-mail is the consistently most safe and trackable method of voting.”

 

Despite President Trump’s claims to the contrary, there is no evidence that voting by mail results in increased voter fraud. Washington state started vote-by-mail in 1983, adopted optional vote-by-mail in 2005 and enacted universal vote-by-mail in 2011.