Mail in voting

The Guardian - In a judicial setback for Donald Trump and his administration, a federal ⁠judge blocked a proposed restriction on mail-in voting across the US. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US district court for the District of Columbia ruled that a US Postal Service plan to deny ballots to voters in states that did not turn over their voter rolls to the federal government should not proceed.

The ruling bars the postal service from enforcing an executive order issued by Trump in March that called for sweeping changes to the administration of elections nationwide.

Anthony Ashton, the senior associate general counsel at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said “This ruling is a critical step in protecting the rights of voters. The proposed USPS changes would have created unnecessary and unlawful barriers, in direct violation of the USPS’s mandate to prioritize election mail. Those barriers could have disproportionately harmed Black voters, who are more likely to rely on mail voting due to longstanding inequities in access.”