Democratic governors press US Postal Service to drop plan tied to Trump’s election order
Summary
A group of Democratic governors asked the U.S. Postal Service to stop a new rule connected to President Donald Trump’s executive order. The order aimed to create federal lists of eligible voters and limit who could get mail-in ballots, but a judge blocked the order as unconstitutional. The governors said the rule would make voting harder and harm election fairness.Key Facts
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March to create federal voter lists and restrict mail ballots.
- The Postal Service proposed a rule in May to carry out this order.
- A federal judge blocked the order, ruling it unconstitutional because only states and Congress can set election rules.
- Nine Democratic governors, including from California and New York, wrote to the Postal Service asking to withdraw the rule.
- They said the rule would complicate voting and wrongly stop many eligible voters from getting ballots.
- Postal workers’ union leaders said it is not their job to check voter eligibility, only to deliver mail.
- The governors cited the court’s blocking of the order as a main reason to stop the Postal Service rule.
- This is the second Trump executive order about election oversight that courts have blocked.
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