A federal appeals court has allowed the USPS to move forward with a new mail‑in ballot delivery rule ahead of the US midterms, warning the agency would suffer 'irreparable harm' if blocked.

On Friday, a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously paused a lower‑court injunction that had temporarily blocked the USPS from finalising and enforcing the new ballot‑delivery rule.

The rule would permit the Postal Service to withhold delivery of mail‑in and absentee ballots where state officials decline to send certain voter data to federal authorities. In practice, that sets up a confrontation between states determined to guard sensitive voter information and a federal agency now claiming it cannot guarantee accurate ballot delivery without it.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    the court accepted the USPS’s warning that delaying the policy would inflict lasting damage.

    allow it to refuse delivery of ballot materials in states that do not share detailed, eligible voter lists with the federal government.

    What in the actual fuck, what “lasting damage” would be done by delivering the fucking ballots to people who should be getting them. Tell me.

    the judges wrote, ‘there can be no do over’, adopting the agency’s argument that it would be locked into an election cycle under rules it believes are inadequate.

    “If we don’t let the government purge voter roles by crying “fraud!” to everyone who voted democrat, then we could potentially have a free and fair election!”

    District Judge Indira Talwani concluded the directive trampled on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections

    Where are all those boot-licking states rights advocates? oh wait, they’re too busy prostrating themselves within the cult of a literal fascist child rapist.