Massachusetts’ Galvin Responds to Trump’s Voting Claims

President Donald Trump recently released a Truth Social statement announcing he will sign an executive order outlawing mail-in ballots nationwide in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. Trump is also targeting electronic voting machines that he believes can be easily manipulated.

Trump’s Truth Social Announcement

According to Fox News Digital, Trump posted, “I’m going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES.”

“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS," Trump posted. “I AND THE REPUBLICANS WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS.”

Reaction From Secretary of State Galvin

Trump’s comments drew the usual angry response from Democrats and folks in the national media. That reaction began right here in Massachusetts, where Secretary of State William Galvin told Boston-based Public Broadcast Station WGBH, “Responding to his rhetoric is a waste of time,” saying Trump “lies all the time and he exaggerates all the time, so there's no point to it.”

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Galvin told GBH there is no evidence to back Trump’s repeated claims that mail-in voting enables fraud.

“We’ve had a number of elections – and they’re continuing through this year with municipal elections – where people are choosing to vote by mail/ They’re very comfortable with it," he said.

According to WGBH, “A proposal that could go before voters next year as a ballot question seeks to repeal the vote-by-mail portion” of the 2022 elections reform law and “return to a system – where only absentee ballots - which are available in more limited circumstances – could be cast by mail.”