Postal delivery rules cannot be leveraged to gatekeep state-administered mail-in voting.
Federal courts consistently block executive attempts to mandate federal database verification as a prerequisite for postal ballot delivery.
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The DOJ sought emergency Supreme Court intervention to lift a block on USPS rules that would force local election offices to comply with federal ballot requirements.
Active federal court injunctions forced the USPS to halt enforcement of a new portal that required states to upload local voter registration data before ballots could be delivered.
A federal court blocked the Postal Service's attempt to require pre-clearance and standardized envelopes to gatekeep mail-in voting.
The 7-2 emergency denial keeps postal delivery rules from gating state-administered mail-in voting for the midterms.
It shows a federal court blocking an executive order that attempted to use postal delivery powers to enforce centralized voter verification.