Supreme Court leaves mail voting rules in place before midterms
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to impose new mail voting restrictions for this year’s midterm elections, leaving lower court injunctions in place.
The order means the U.S. Postal Service is expected to keep delivering ballots under existing rules. The blocked plan, tied to a Trump executive order, would have required states to provide voter name and address lists and use specified barcodes on ballot envelopes for Postal Service delivery.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Boston temporarily barred the Postal Service from enforcing the requirements, finding they were likely unlawful because the agency does not control mail voting. A second federal judge issued another preliminary injunction late Sunday, and the high court declined to disturb it.
Mail voting has already started in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin. More states are set to follow, including Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, where elections are conducted mainly or entirely by mail.
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