AG Campbell Secures Court Order Temporarily Blocking Postal Service’s Unlawful Mail Voting Rule
Judge Indira Talwani said the Postal Service rule could sow chaos and impose significant burdens on states.
- On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked the Trump administration's new mail-in voting rule, rejecting the government's argument that legal challenges came too late.
- President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March directing the Postal Service to tighten mail-in voting controls, which the Supreme Court previously allowed to proceed on procedural grounds.
- A whistleblower report released by Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges the Postal Service is pursuing a "secretive, rushed" implementation that risks "catastrophic failure" in the mail ballot system.
- The administration is fighting the ruling in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the rule forces states to overhaul voting systems and submit voter lists for federal approval.
- Judge Talwani noted the rule likely exceeds the agency's authority, as voting rights groups and Democratic-led states warn the directive could disenfranchise "potentially millions" of Americans.
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Editorial: Hawaii need ‘Plan B’ for mail-in ballots | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
State lawmakers have wanted a “Plan B” in the event that the U.S. Postal Service could implement rules on handling mail-in ballots for the mid-term elections, a mere two months away. It seems that now’s the time for Hawaii to start putting that in place, and to prevent a hurried scanning process by postal authorities from going into effect.
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Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic
President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections.
According to Postal Service officials, the attempt could jeopardize the voting of millions of people in the November legislative election. Voting by mail will become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of millions of Americans if the restrictive rules governing the mail vote demanded by the president are allowed to be implemented.
New challenges to Trump mail-in voting order arrive after US Supreme Court ruling
By Jacob FischlerStates Newsroom Democrat-led states and voting rights groups re-filed lawsuits Wednesday to block the Trump administration from executing a new regulation to restrict mail-in voting, while a federal judge lifted a nationwide pause on the policy in line with this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that handed the administration a procedural win. Democratic officials in 24 states and the District of Columbia launched a new federal…
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