Supreme Court Keeps Injunction, USPS Halts Voter-List System
The U. S. Postal Service announced on 21 September that it has stopped development of a computer system for compiling voter lists after the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lift an injunction on new postal-service mail-ballot rules. The court’s brief order left the lower-court injunction in place, preserving existing ballot-mail procedures for the upcoming midterm elections.
The decision, reported by alternet. org, followed a series of rulings in which the Court denied the administration’s request to allow the Postal Service to withhold ballots or change envelope designs, a move criticized by President Trump and welcomed by voting-rights groups. Earlier reports from NPR, CBS and CNN noted that the justices said the states would not have enough time to comply before the November vote.
