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First Circuit rejects bid to lift injunction blocking USPS rule for mail-in voting
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A First Circuit panel denied the Trump administration's bid to lift an injunction blocking new USPS mail-in voting restrictions before the November 3 midterms. The March executive order would have required states to use ballots with tracking barcodes and directed USPS to deliver ballots only to voters on a 'citizenship list,' with funding threats for noncompliant states.
The panel affirmed District Judge Indira Talwani's finding that rushing the rule into effect risked 'chaos and widespread voter disenfranchisement,' noting the government offered no real rebuttal to that finding on appeal. A whistleblower report separately alleged USPS dropped standard testing on its ballot-screening tool to meet an 'impossible timeframe,' and continued building it even after a judge blocked the order.
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An agency that skipped its own testing and troubleshooting to hit a political deadline is not a story about election integrity, it's a story about doing a rush job on something you can't afford to get wrong. The government's own lawyers apparently couldn't muster much of an argument against the lower court's findings, which tells you how thin the case was to start. Twenty-three states and a federal court all read this the same way; that's not a coincidence, that's a pattern.
