First lady Melania Trump and son Barron Trump, like the president, voted by mail in the Aug. 18 Florida Republican primary election.
Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections public records show Melania and Barron Trump have a standing request to receive their ballot by mail through the end of the year. It lists their voter statuses as “you voted by Mail Ballot,” and indicates the ballots were received for processing Aug. 13.
The White House previously confirmed that President Donald Trump voted by mail in this election, despite his repeated attempts to limit its availability and remarks calling it “inherently corrupt.” The trio also voted by mail in the March 24 special election for the state representative in the district where Mar-a-Lago sits.
The first lady’s office did not comment on their voting method.
Trump calls mail-in voting ‘mail-in cheating’
The first family’s absentee voting comes as President Donald Trump is urging the Senate to approve the SAVE America Act, which would prohibit universal mail-in voting and limit mail ballots to voters either in the military, disabled, traveling or with illnesses preventing them from voting in person.
Trump’s Palm Beach County voting history record obtained by the USA TODAY Network shows Trump voted absentee not only in March of this year, but also in elections in March 2020, August 2020, March 2021 and August 2022. Politico first reported on Trump casting a mail-in ballot in Florida in the Augst 2026 primary by citing voting records from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. USA TODAY was unable to access the president’s Palm Beach County records online. A search tool said Trump’s voting records were “protected from public disclosure.”
Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman, confirmed Trump voted by mail in the Florida GOP primary, calling it “a nonstory.”
“As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel – but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it’s highly susceptible to fraud,” Wales said. “As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, D.C.”
Trump last week asked the Supreme Court to intervene to fully implement an executive order that seeks to restrict the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. Trump’s order, which was blocked by a federal judge in Massachusetts, called on states to provide lists of eligible voters who may receive mail ballots. If states did not comply, USPS would refuse to deliver the ballots under the order.
“Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” Trump said in remarks in Memphis, Tennessee, in March. Trump leveled similar baseless and false claims about mail voting ahead of the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden and the 2024 election he won over Kamala Harris.
Explaining why he voted by mail in the Florida special election earlier this year, Trump told reporters in March, “Because I’m president of the United States, and because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida.”
Contributing: Josh Meyer, USA TODAY
Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at KCrowley@usatodayco.com. Follow her on X (Twitter), Threads, Bluesky and TikTok.
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This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Melania and Barron Trump voted by mail in Florida primary election
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