{"id":78620,"date":"2026-09-13T05:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/trumps-attempted-crackdown-on-mail-in-voting-heres-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:54:45","slug":"trumps-attempted-crackdown-on-mail-in-voting-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/trumps-attempted-crackdown-on-mail-in-voting-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attempted crackdown on mail-in voting \u2013 here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President and allies have tried to ram through changes to the US voting system, but his efforts are being challenged<\/p>\n<p>Voting by mail is a \u201choax\u201d, according to Donald Trump, despite about 29% of American voters casting their vote this way in 2024. The US president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/trump-mail-vote-florida-republican-primary\">repeatedly<\/a> done so himself.<\/p>\n<p>But the Trump administration is nevertheless attempting to ram through a sweeping crackdown on the practice, pushing for changes to federal law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/13\/trump-voting-by-mail-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President and allies have tried to ram through changes to the US voting system, but his efforts are being challenged Voting by mail is a \u201choax\u201d, according to Donald Trump, despite about 29% of American voters casting their vote this way in 2024. The US president has repeatedly done so himself. But the Trump administration &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s attempted crackdown on mail-in voting \u2013 here\u2019s what to know\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/trumps-attempted-crackdown-on-mail-in-voting-heres-what-to-know\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s attempted crackdown on mail-in voting \u2013 here\u2019s what to know\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}