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Federal Judge Halts Sections of Trump Executive Order on Mail Ballot Delivery
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking Sections 2 and 3 of President Trump's March 31 executive order. The ruling prevents the Postal Service from restricting mail ballot delivery and halts related federal actions through the November midterms.
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” The order bars the U.S. Postal Service from refusing delivery of mail ballots in states that do not provide voter rolls to federal officials and stops the creation of a national list of voters eligible for mail ballots through the November midterms.
” The executive order directed the Department of Homeland Security and the Postal Service to compile state-by-state lists of U.S. citizens eligible to vote and required the Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to individuals on those lists.
Postmaster General David Steiner said on June 24 that the Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that decline to turn over absentee voter records. Twenty-four Democrat-led states and local governments filed the lawsuit challenging the order. The Trump administration is expected to appeal.
In a separate proceeding, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined to block the order in late May. Democrats have appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
