Stated on August 18, 2025 in remarks at the White House:

With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."

Trump said with voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."

Scientific studies and experience with past elections show that both parts of this assertion are incorrect.

Trump is wrong that machine-conducted voting inevitably takes two weeks. And getting rid of machines that tabulate votes and relying solely on humans to count paper ballots would, in most cases, take longer, require more personnel and add expense to the process, particularly in large jurisdictions with large numbers of ballots cast and a variety of races on each ballot.



False.