BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Rules Committee, today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s threat to end mail-in voting and the use of voting machines ahead of the 2026 elections: 

“Since losing in 2020, President Trump has continued to push disinformation and blatant lies about our voting systems. The president’s latest threats undermine the public’s faith in the security of our voting system, and seek to weaken state governments’ power to conduct our elections.  

“The president is siding with Vladimir Putin over America’s top cybersecurity experts, who have said our election infrastructure is secure. The facts are clear: mail-in voting is safe, and our elections are fair. I’ll stand with my colleagues in the Senate to block any order that limits Vermonters’ ability to vote.”  

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