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

The US Postal Service prepared to publish a final ⁠rule late ⁠on ​Friday to impose new requirements on states to provide the federal government with information on voters before the November ⁠midterm congressional elections, despite a ​pair of court ‌orders ‌that currently block the ‌changes from taking effect.

The USPS acknowledged in the text of the final rule posted online Friday, which is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register next week, that two injunctions issued by federal courts in California and Massachusetts currently bar it from moving ahead with the changes to comply with a March executive order signed by Donald Trump.

In accordance with the order, the postal service would ‌require states to give the US Department of Homeland Security and other agencies access to lists of voters and to adopt new balloting procedures before the mail agency would make deliveries. If states did not comply, the USPS would refuse to deliver the ballots.

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

going to be crazy if states have to send out ballots by ups or fedex. or maybe just offer general pick up ballots. that would greatly increase election security. its just unimaginable of how opposite this administration does from what it says.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    I would hope most states would do just that combined with huge period of time to drop it off. Colorado typically has about 4 weeks to do so, IIRC (and if the stupid conservative monkeys have not managed to fuck anything up about our system).

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