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USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump\u2019s election order\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-01 13:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with mail-in ballot restrictions, following a court\u2019s rejection of a request by voting rights groups to immediately block an executive order from President Donald Trump ordering the changes.<\/p>\n

A new regulation proposed last Friday seeks to apply \u201cuniform standards for the mailing of absentee ballots to and from voters,\u201d including new ballot envelope standards with unique barcodes, election mail logos and other changes that would allow the federal government unprecedented abilities to track \u2013 and halt \u2013 the movement of mail-in ballots across the country.<\/p>\n

Trump has long argued that mail-in ballots facilitated election fraud in 2020 that cost him the presidency, though election experts, election officials and even some Trump allies have dismissed those claims as baseless.<\/p>\n

According to the proposed rule, these changes would allow USPS to follow ballots at a granular and individual level, something critics have said will make it easier for the Trump administration to meddle with their delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniquely serialized [barcodes] facilitate the tracking of individual pieces of Ballot Mail to and from individual voters as the barcodes are scanned on the Postal Service\u2019s mail processing equipment,\u201d the proposed rule states.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order, issued in March, would require states to send the federal government a list of all voters eligible to vote by mail prior to USPS mailing them ballots. The federal government has indicated that it plans to cross-check those voters with data from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The proposed rule says that after states submit their list of eligible mail-in and absentee voters, USPS will \u201ccompile\u201d the information and then provide a \u201cMail-In and Absentee Participation List\u201d back to them. The Postal Service said it \u201cwould not change the information provided by states\u201d when compiling the return…
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