Trump Responds to SCOTUS Mail-In Ballots Ruling: ‘Pass the SAVE America Act’
Do your job, Senate.
President Donald Trump once again pushed the Senate to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE America Act, after the Supreme Court ruled that Election Day statutes do not ban states from counting mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward under state law.
"It is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT" – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/k6ssG8fX5w
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 29, 2026
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
In light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today concerning Voter’s Rights, and the fact that “people’s” votes are allowed to be counted LONG AFTER an Election is over, it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is,
1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PHOTO I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).
2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.
3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY DEPLOYMENT, OR TRAVEL!).
There is no excuse for a politician, or otherwise, to be against the above three requirements. There is only one reason to oppose — CHEATING! The House of Representatives has approved this vital Act, THREE TIMES. The United States Senate seems unable to do so. In a time when there is a powerful Communist Movement taking place in our Country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th, all Dumocrats, and our five Republican Senate Hold Outs, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to SAVE OUR COUNTRY. There can be no more excuses! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
SCOTUS wrote:
The federal election-day statutes do not preempt Mississippi’s law. The defining element of an “election”—the term used in all three federal statutes—has always been the electorate’s choice of candidate. And a related federal statute, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), confirms that while federal law dictates when ballots must be cast, state law dictates when they must be received….
The electorate’s choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received. The most recent amendment to the Presidential election-day statute bears this out. In 2022, Congress inserted the phrase “election day” into that statute and marked that day as a specific Tuesday. 3 U. S. C. §21(1). It then created an exception: When States “modif[y] the period of voting” in response to certain force majeure events, the term “election day” shall “include the modified period of voting.” Ibid. (emphasis added). That Congress defined “election day” with reference to “voting” indicates that “voting” is the act governed by the statute….
In sum, the election-day statutes require the electorate’s choice to be made on election day. That occurs so long as election day is the deadline for individuals to vote—as it is in Mississippi. But the election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt, so they do not prevent Mississippi from counting ballots postmarked before election day yet received afterward.
Trump is right, though. CONGRESS needs to do its job.
While SCOTUS claimed the case has nothing to do with the Constitution, Congress can still act. The Constitution allows states to determine voting eligibility, and Congress can make or alter state election laws.
You know who can change election day statutes? Congress.
Trump has already promised not to sign any bills until Congress passes the SAVE Act. He recently shelved the bipartisan housing bill.
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You have 5 rino McCain republicans just waiting to do a “thumbs down” to stick it to the President and those who elected him.
A pity tar and feathering has passed out of favor.
A pity tar and feathering has passed out of favor.
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a pity dueling has passed out of favor
Susan Collins has been texting me for money. Somewhere between fat chance and no f*g way, Susie.
Tell her you’ll donate but only if she votes for the SAVE act.
I’d suggest some additions/modifications to.SAVE act.
1. require ballots for Federal offices to be received NLT election day.
2. In cases where a State refuses to cooperate with voter list maintenance/transparency actions by Feds …the Executive shall require a new/separate voter registration list be established for Federal Offices and separate ballot for Federal offices to be used. DoJ election monitors on site in every precinct (probably LEO trained re elections process)
3. Require in person election day only voting when 2 above is implemented.
In sum if the States play nicely and cooperate they can still have most of their current control over elections. If they don’t then they lose control of elections for Federal offices from voter registration, separate ballot and a single uniform election day for in person voting for Federal Offices. Incentives matter. As a secondary incentive the States don’t really wanna have a separate federal voter registration list that would provide an opportunity for a direct compare and contrast to the State run list b/c that would almost certainly demonstrate the large # of visible ‘bad’ legally insufficient registrations they refused to remove as part of their list maintenance requirements.
Trump has a great idea.
However, his need for verification for each election can be satisfied in another way,
For example, let’s look at how USA citizens are cleared for entry into the USA.
Yesterday, I cleared US immigration at LAX.
When I got into line, there were about 100 persons in front of me, who were being processed by one agent, with a device that had a camera.
Each person had their picture taken and within seconds a check mark was shown on the screen, and the person was allowed entry.
The agent did not look at any passports.
The immigration clearing method for USA citizens could be adopted for voting purposes.
The voter would provide the information once and the system would have the information needed for voter verification.
The verification would take seconds.
If a voter did not want to submit to this big brother method, they could choose to prove citizenship each time they voted.
I called and emailed Thune
I’ll forget Cornyn call Cruz
Again.. again
If we do not pass and enforce the SAVE AMERICA Act, it must be assumed that all electi0ns are fraudulent because the Democrats will manufacture enough fake votes to win. What is the legitimacy of a government installed by a blatantly fraudulent election?
In passing, here in Colorado primary day is tomorrow. Here is the official policy of Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democrat Secretary of State:
“if you are a United States citizen who has never lived in the United
> States, you can register to vote in Colorado if your parent, legal
> guardian, spouse, or domestic partner was a resident of Colorado
> before leaving the United States.”
https://completecolorado.com/2026/06/28/rnc-sues-griswold-never-resident-overseas-colorado-voters/
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Note that Federal law requires this, but only for federal elections. A state can say that such voters can’t vote in state or local elections, but Colorado law says they can. The plaintiffs in the reported case are challenging that law, claiming that the state constitution requires the state to exercise its right to restrict such voters to federal elections only.
NC State Supreme Court this year held that “never-residents” like this are barred from voting by the State Constitution.
The RNC is currently suing in VA over the same thing.
Winning requires, in small part, that the State Constitution actually prohibits this. But, of course, all that really matters is who is currently occupying the bench.
Again obviously only in state elections. Federal law requires that the states allow such people to vote in federal elections from the last address associated with them, however remotely.
You cannot link a specific ballot back to its envelope once it is opened. Once officials “verify” the envelope is legal, the ballot inside is separated and mixed with others so no one knows which ballot went with which envelope.
Thus, after this ruling, you can no longer call an election on election day, since no one knows how many ballots will be received over the next five days.
Not quite as bad as that but it is bad. Many States don’t have widespread ‘mail in balloting’. My State of Alabama does have mail in ballots just a single Election Day. Requests for an ‘absentee ballot’ are limited to traditional purposes; Military Overseas, homebound/disabled. Kind of a pain to get approved for one which it should be; Physician gotta sign off, notary required on all docs, applicant gotta include copy of ID, letter they write/sign explaining circumstances that meet limited exemption criteria. Clerks follow-up with all that and if you commit perjury you get prosecuted.
A slight silver lining is by allowing the Mississippi statute to stand the CT affirmatively allowed late ballots:
1. With a Post Mark
2. Within five days
3. Delivered to election official
Even those very minimal criteria would wreck the practices in some States where ballots are accepted WITHOUT a Post Mark, no requirement to get it into hands of election official and no real deadline. Challenges to other States with far more lax (or non existent in practice) ballot procedures can use the limits here to argue for a baseline limit. Whether that succeeds is questionable. I suspect Congress will ultimately act to revise Election Day and ballot procedures for Federal elections and force States to choose to bifurcate their elections or follow the procedures set for Federal offices.
Yes, but since Congress is in permanent session, his refusal to sign bills only means they automatically become law 11-12 days later, and he doesn’t get the credit of a signing ceremony.
Here is the most important bit from the dissent:
“Rather, the electorate’s choice would be made piecemeal over an extended period prior to election day, and that prospect is blatantly contrary to what the election-day statutes demand.”
Unreported everywhere. Everything I’ve seen talks only about allowing mail in ballots to be counted after election day and Trump’s response.
But here we have 4 Justices on record explicitly stating that ALL ballots cast PRIOR to election day are UnConstitutional.
You’d think that this would be big news.
Note that the majority didn’t even consider this, as it was not the question put before the court. They only opined on whether the counting of ballots cast on or prior to election day bur received after election day was lawful. They said nothing about ballots cast PRIOR to election day because that wasn’t what the plaintiffs sued about.
So, there could easily be 6 Justices in support of the above quote.
Someone needs to bring a case on this issue.
It could end all early voting nationwide.
ALL ballots would have to be cast ON election day only.
Also, I think the majority got it correct on the issue at hand – there’s nothing in the Constitution or Federal Law about when ballots must be counted or when the results must be announced. Only that they must be cast ON election day. So, as long as mail in voting is a thing (and that should be scrapped also, IMO), then you have to allow for the delay of the snail-mail. All ballots sent in by mail must have a postmark of election day itself – one or more days before OR after and they should be tossed in the trash uncounted. Most ballots would arrive a few days after election day, and then we wouldn’t know the results in a close election until a few days later. Which is stupid, but not illegal or unconstitutional.
Best to go back to in person voting only. Period. ON election day.
Early votes are deemed to have been cast on election day.
That absolutely have NOT been cast on election day, though, and 4 SCOTUS Justices just made it crystal clear that they ‘deem’ no such nonsense.
No, they didn’t say any such thing:
The postmark debacle is BS. Brings up memories of hanging chads.
Those who count the ballots determine the election: A missing postmark.
Does it count? An smeared illegible postmark. Does it count? A postmark that looks fake. Does it count? Only half a postmark. Does it count? Wrong color ink. Does it count? and so on and so forth. And the “counting” goes on and on, like the Ever ready bunny.
SCOTUS has unleashed a storm. Fair elections are impossible in the United States of America. Only a fool would believe that we have safe, fair elections. Vote early! Vote often! Vote by mail! Your vote counts! they say.
In this day and age the very idea that you are required do or allow ANYTHING by mail is ridiculous. NOBODY uses the freaking mail for anything but bills and junk mail – and most of the bills are going paperless.