Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballots

According to the text posted online Friday, the USPS is ready to implement the new restrictions on mail-in voting if the court injunctions are lifted.

“If the government obtains timely relief from the injunctions, implementation immediately thereafter will provide election officials as much time as possible before the next election to comply with the rule’s preparation standards for Federal Ballot Mail envelopes, and to prepare to submit data to the Federal Ballot Mail Portal (‘Portal’), before the mail-in and absentee ballots subject to this rule are mailed (which generally occurs in September or thereafter, as determined by state law),” the rule reads. “The Portal will become active (along with the verification process that relies on Portal data) at the time of the publication of the system of records (‘SOR’) governing the Portal.”

Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024, but Trump, who wants to restrict the number of voters by limiting ballots cast by mail, signed an executive order in March that prohibits the USPS from delivering ballots to any voters not on a federal list of citizens deemed eligible to vote in each state by the Department of Homeland Security.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    42·
    7 days ago

    When Trump is in office, the Postal Service dances to his tune, but when Biden was in office, it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to anything to stop the abuse.

    “For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people,” Mamdani said at a rally headlined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can."

    This is exactly what he was talking about.

    • Natanael@infosec.pub
      9·
      7 days ago

      Every time Biden tried there were dozens of judges all the way up to SCOTUS getting in the way, it’s a miracle he got anything done at all.

      He should’ve used all leverage he had to get Trump arrested the week he took over.

      • stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 days ago

        not imprisoning Trump in a black site indefinitely (no contact with outside world whatsoever) was the biggest mistake Biden made, imo.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          2·
          5 days ago

          I said it about Biden, and I’ll say it about the next Dem Prez in 2028: the first thing they should do when they step off the podium after saying I do, is call for the arrests of the primary players, and their transport to Guantanamo Bay by the end of the day. They will be extensively interrogated, and we’ll find out about EVERYTHING. Then they will be incarcerated in Gitmo for the remainder of their lives, with no contact with each other, or anyone on the outside. There will be no news of them until the announcement of their deaths.

          MAGA estates will be fully confiscated, and their corporations operated with revenues going to benefit the American people. Maga family members who didn’t end up in Gitmo better find a job.