The Supreme Court lifted an injunction on Aug. 24 that blocked President Donald Trump from enacting mail-in voting restrictions, a move Washington Examiner editorial director Hugo Gurdon said he supported.
“Mail-in voting, early voting — these things have proliferated to the point where we’re one of the very few countries with democratic elections where you don’t know the result pretty quickly,” Gurdon said on C-Span’s Washington Journal Sunday.
Elections need to be “tightened up” to restore voter confidence in the integrity of the results, Gurdon said, adding that he was in favor of requiring voter identification.
“I think the fundamental question … about confidence in elections is a very important one, and it’s important to find the balance between making sure all Americans can vote, but also making sure that there’s a lot less room for any shenanigans,” Gurdon continued.
Trump has adamantly pushed for Congress to enact the SAVE America Act, which would implement stricter voter ID laws across the country, requiring voters to show proof of citizenship and ordering states to remove noncitizens from lists of eligible voters. The bill passed in the House but has stalled in the Senate.
With midterm elections fast approaching, Gurdon said it would be too late to pass the SAVE America Act for this election cycle because it could further increase the risk of mistakes as states would rush to implement the changes.
“Broadly speaking, I would say that the election system that we have is the one that needs to go forward in the midterm elections, but there does need to be long-term tightening up of the rules,” Gurdon said.
An August 2025 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 83% of Americans supported voter ID, including around 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats. The survey was conducted among a sample size of 3,554 from Aug. 4-10, 2025, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.8%.
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Gurdon said that while there “certainly is election fraud” occurring in the country, the extent of the issue has been debated across political parties. Trump, for example, has long maintained his stance that there was mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“Democrats tend to say that it is minuscule … and doesn’t affect any election,” Gurdon said. “It’s probable, too, that the Republicans may exaggerate it. And that’s why I’ve said it’s important that we have a system where we can be sure of that. One of the problems with a system where it’s varied across the country, [where] there’s no voter ID, is that there is room for dispute.”