Judge Tells USPS To Keep Its Hands Off State Ballots
A federal court just shut down a plan that would have let the Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states refusing to hand over voter data.
So, the USPS decided it wanted to get into the election-administering business. The plan was pretty simple: states had to fork over their private voter lists, or the mail carrier would just stop delivering ballots. A federal judge essentially told them to stay in their lane, noting that Congress never actually gave them the power to make up their own voting rules.
The whole thing stems from an executive order by Donald Trump, who has been hunting for state voter records for months. The Postmaster General, David Steiner, tried to argue this was all about 'security,' but the court wasn't buying it. It turns out, even in Washington, you can't just decide you're in charge of the ballot box because you feel like it.
Apparently, the Postal Service is now a political weapon, which is exactly where everyone wants their junk mail and utility bills coming from.
Source: Court Listener
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