Virginia AG Calls Out Trump’s Hypocrisy on Mail-In Voting, Joins Multi-State Legal Battle

Donald Trump’s war on mail-in voting just hit a new front, with Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones stepping into the ring alongside nearly two dozen other states and Washington, D.C., to challenge the president’s latest executive order. This order attempts to restrict mail-in voting and demands federal agencies compile and share lists of voting-age citizens with state officials — a move critics say is a thinly veiled effort to sow confusion and suppress turnout ahead of the midterms.

Jones didn’t mince words. Calling the order a “blatant attempt by Donald Trump to sow confusion and distrust in our democratic processes,” he made clear this fight is about more than just voting procedures. It’s about protecting the integrity of elections from a president who has repeatedly undermined them for personal gain.

The hypocrisy is glaring. Trump himself has voted by mail, most recently in a special election in Florida just months ago. Yet he now rails against a method that experts confirm is extraordinarily secure. The New York Times and the Brookings Institution have thoroughly debunked Republican and Trumpian claims of mail-in voter fraud, showing it occurs at a rate of about four cases per 10 million votes — practically nonexistent.

This legal challenge comes amid a broader pattern of Trump-backed efforts to manipulate electoral rules, including pushing for mid-decade redistricting in Republican-controlled states to lock in GOP power. In Virginia, Democrats are pushing back hard against these tactics, even as dark-money groups funded by Trump allies like Peter Thiel flood mailboxes with misleading and false campaign mailers.

The stakes could not be higher. Trump’s ongoing assault on mail-in voting is part of a larger strategy to undermine democratic participation and tilt the playing field in his favor. Virginia’s AG and his counterparts are the frontline defense against this authoritarian gambit — and they deserve our full support.