US Postal Service Defends Plan to Require States to Disclose Mail Voting Lists
- On Wednesday, Postmaster General David Steiner testified that the U.S. Postal Service will not deliver mail ballots from states refusing to share their voter lists with the Trump administration.
- Stemming from President Donald Trump's March 31 executive order titled 'Ensuring Citizen Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,' the proposal directs federal agencies to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote by mail.
- Democratic Senator Gary Peters challenged Steiner during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, arguing the policy 'coerces' states into surrendering sensitive voter data as a back-door attempt to gain constitutionally controlled information.
- Multiple lawsuits are currently challenging the directive, while 23 state attorneys general have sued to block the underlying executive order, citing concerns that it exceeds presidential authority.
- Public comment on the proposal remains open through July 2, as lawmakers and voting-rights groups warn the measures could transform USPS into an agency with authorities to disenfranchise Americans.
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Under proposed rule, USPS won't deliver mail ballots to states that don't provide voter rolls, postmaster general says
Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots.
Proposed Trump Administration Takeover of Mail-Based Voting Opposed by Forty-Seven Senators
WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – The entire Democratic Caucus of the U.S. Senate detailed their opposition to a new U.S. Postal Service rule proposed earlier this month to have the executive branch take over mail-based elections nationwide. On June 2, the U.S. Postal Service published a proposal to amend the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual to add a section creating a federal registry of approved voters and req…
Postmaster General: No Voter List, No Ballot
Postmaster General David Steiner sat before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday and delivered the clearest statement on election integrity that any federal official has made in years. Asked whether the United States Postal Service would deliver mail ballots to states that refuse to hand their voter lists over to the federal government, Steiner answered without flinching: no. Senate Democrats reacted as though the republic itself …
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