Judge Talwani Blocks 2 Trump Mail-Voting Curbs as States Race to Send Ballots
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Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 28
Judge Talwani Blocks 2 Trump Mail-Voting Curbs as States Race to Send Ballots
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 28
Summary
A Massachusetts federal judge temporarily halted two key parts of Trump’s mail-voting order: blocking USPS from withholding ballots from voters absent from a federal citizenship list and stopping a barcode mandate for ballot envelopes.
Talwani said the administration showed no evidence that noncitizen voting is a major problem and warned the changes could disenfranchise voters because many states must begin mailing ballots as early as next week.
The ruling is the second time Talwani has blocked the order in the voting-rights groups’ case after briefly lifting an earlier injunction when the Supreme Court said a separate states-led challenge was premature before final USPS rules existed.
Those rules were finalized Wednesday, prompting 23 states and Washington, D.C., to file a new lawsuit; the administration is expected to appeal, though election officials say November implementation may already be unrealistic.