States Fight USPS Ballot Rules

States say USPS mail-ballot limits could disrupt voting amid fraud probes.

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Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots

Election Officials Grapple With Uncertainty as Supreme Court Considers Mail Ballot Plan

U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds

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California and 22 other states, plus the District of Columbia, asked the Supreme Court to keep a Boston federal judge’s order blocking parts of the Trump administration’s new Postal Service mail-ballot rule for the November midterms. The rule would require states to rapidly revise mail voting systems with new voter lists and bar-coded envelopes, giving USPS a screening role before ballots are delivered. The states said compliance would be impossible in some places and could prevent millions from voting by mail. Nearly 40 current and former election officials from 10 states also urged the court to block the rule.

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Postal Ballot SabotageLeans Left

Trump’s plan to give the Postal Service a role in mail-ballot verification is a partisan attempt to interfere with the midterms. It would create legal and practical chaos for mail voting, so courts should block it before it disrupts the election.

Election Interference ThreatLeans Left

The Trump administration’s election interventions are damaging rather than protective, built around fruitless voter-fraud efforts and unprecedented federal meddling. Those actions distract from real election threats and risk undermining free, fair access to the ballot this fall.