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US Postal Service Issues New Rule for Mail Ballots, but Its Impact on the Midterms Is Uncertain
The justices are considering whether to keep an injunction in place as the order would require states to share voter lists and limit mailed ballots.
- The Supreme Court is currently weighing whether to allow President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in ballots, a decision the Court has been considering longer than experts anticipated.
- Trump's administration appealed to the Court last month to lift an injunction blocking the order, which mandates federal compilation of voter lists and restricts mail ballot delivery to verified voters only.
- Over the weekend, the United States Postal Service published a draft rule blocking mail ballots "unless compliance with the rule's new standards has been verified." Plaintiffs simultaneously asked a judge to block finalization of the regulation.
- A federal judge in Boston has frozen the order, and the Postal Service's final regulation—issued Friday night—remains on hold pending the Court's decision on whether to lift the injunction.
- Time is running out for procedural changes, as states must begin sending ballots to overseas and military voters from North Carolina on Sept. 4, making compliance with the directive virtually impossible.
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US Postal Service issues new rule for mail ballots, but its impact on the midterms is uncertain
The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a new regulation limiting mail ballots in November's election, but it won't go into effect unless the U.S. Supreme Court allows it.
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The Pending Supreme Court Decision Hanging Over the Midterms
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