Trump Casts Florida Mail Ballot While Pushing SAVE America Act to Severely Limit Mail‑In Voting
President Trump cast and returned a mail ballot in a Palm Beach County special election that was counted, even as he has publicly called mail‑in voting “cheating” and “corrupt” and is pushing the SAVE America Act, which would sharply limit mail ballots to narrow categories like illness, disability, military service or travel. The White House, through spokeswoman Olivia Wales, defended his absentee ballot as consistent with that proposal and said he “primarily lives at the White House,” while PBS notes a 2025 Brookings estimate that mail‑voting fraud is vanishingly rare (about four cases per 10 million ballots), undermining broad claims of widespread corruption.
📌 Key Facts
- Palm Beach County records confirm Donald Trump cast and returned a mail ballot in a Tuesday special election for state legislative seats; the ballot was counted.
- Trump is publicly pushing the SAVE America Act to severely limit mail‑in voting while he himself used a mail ballot in the Florida special election.
- The White House, through spokeswoman Olivia Wales, defended Trump’s absentee voting as consistent with the SAVE America Act—saying the bill would allow mail ballots only for illness, disability, military service or travel and would not permit 'universal mail‑in voting'—and Wales added that Trump 'primarily lives at the White House' and called coverage of his mail voting a 'non‑story.'
- Trump has recently described mail‑in voting as 'cheating' and 'corrupt as hell' and continues to tie the SAVE America Act to banning universal mail ballots despite no evidence that mail‑ballot fraud affected the 2020 outcome.
- A 2025 Brookings Institution report cited in coverage estimates mail‑voting fraud at roughly 0.000043% of mail ballots—about four cases per 10 million votes—undercutting claims that mail balloting is broadly 'corrupt.'
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March 24, 2026
4:43 PM
Trump casts Florida ballot by mail as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option
New information:
- Palm Beach County records confirm Trump cast and returned a mail ballot in a Tuesday special election for state legislative seats, and that it was counted.
- The White House, via spokeswoman Olivia Wales, explicitly defends Trump’s mail voting as consistent with the SAVE America Act, stressing it allows mail ballots only for illness, disability, military service or travel and does not permit 'universal mail-in voting.'
- Wales argues Trump 'primarily lives at the White House' to justify his absentee status and calls coverage of his mail voting a 'non-story.'
- The article cites a 2025 Brookings Institution report estimating mail-voting fraud at roughly 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast—about four cases per 10 million votes—directly undercutting claims that mail balloting is broadly 'corrupt.'
- Trump has recently called mail-in voting 'cheating' and 'corrupt as hell' and continues to tie the SAVE America Act to banning universal mail ballots despite a lack of evidence that fraud affected the 2020 outcome.