WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service unveiled proposed regulations on Friday that would mandate states furnish voter information for federal elections, coming just one day after a federal judge chose not to immediately halt President Donald Trump’s executive order addressing mail-in voting procedures.
According to a Federal Register notice published Friday, the proposed USPS regulations would mandate states supply voter names along with corresponding barcodes linked to their mail-in ballots for federal elections. The public will have a 30-day period to submit comments on the proposed regulations before the Trump administration can move forward with finalizing them.
A day earlier, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington chose not to halt Trump’s March 31 executive order regarding mail-in ballots, though the judge did not rule on the order’s legality.
