Election integrity and ensuring that only legal ballots from eligible voters are cast and counted has long been a major concern for President Donald Trump, and he has often expressed his desire to take action to address those issues.

On Saturday, Trump previewed an impending executive order he would sign to make voter ID a requirement for "every single vote," according to the Washington Examiner.

That follows an announcement from the president about two weeks earlier about possible action he would take to eliminate or dramatically reduce the use of mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, which he has long held are susceptible to voter fraud and can result in manipulated election results.

Trump wants to require ID for all voters

In a Saturday evening Truth Social post, President Trump wrote, "Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!"

"Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!" he added.

No further details were given, nor did Trump provide any indication on when he might issue such an executive order to require voter ID, nor how such a mandate would work in states that don't already have voter ID requirements.

According to Ballotpedia, 36 states already have laws that require voters to provide an ID prior to casting their votes, with 25 of those states mandating a photo ID and the 11 others accepting other non-photo forms of ID, while the remaining 14 states have no such requirements for voters to prove their identity before filling out a ballot.

Notably, the ID requirements often vary by state, and in many instances voters without a valid ID are still permitted to cast provisional ballots. Also, some of the states that don't require the provision of an ID when ballots are cast do mandate that voters identify themselves and prove their eligibility when first registering to vote -- though the enforcement of such rules are questionable in some states.

A call to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines

Just a couple of weeks earlier, President Trump declared in a post, "I am 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, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election."

He went on to make a few debatable assertions, including that the U.S. is the only nation to still use mail-in ballots, as well as that the individual states act as "agents" of the federal government in administering elections.

Trump also acknowledged the near certainty that Democrats, whom he insisted would be "virtually unelectable" without the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines, would "strongly oppose" an impending executive order to such effect that he will presumably issue ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Trump's prior order to preserve and protect federal elections

Though it is unclear when President Trump will issue the promised executive orders on mandating voter ID or eliminating mail-in ballots and voting machines, he did issue an executive order in March on "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections."

That order called for the enforcement of citizenship requirements for federal elections, offered assistance to states to verify the eligibility of voters, moved to withhold federal funds from states that fail to comply with federal election laws, and urged the prosecution of various election-related crimes.

It also ordered improvements to voting system security measures, demanded compliance with a "uniform" Election Day, and sought to prevent foreign interference or the unlawful use of federal funds in federal elections.