{"id":77730,"date":"2026-08-21T21:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/us-postal-service-rule-tightens-mail-in-voting-despite-court-orders-blocking-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:42:42","slug":"us-postal-service-rule-tightens-mail-in-voting-despite-court-orders-blocking-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/us-postal-service-rule-tightens-mail-in-voting-despite-court-orders-blocking-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballots<\/p>\n<p>The US Postal Service prepared to publish a final \u2060rule late \u2060on \u200bFriday to impose new requirements on states to provide the federal government with information on voters before the November \u2060midterm congressional elections, despite a \u200bpair of court \u200corders \u200cthat currently block the \u200cchanges from taking effect.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS acknowledged in <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2026-17238.pdf\">the text of the final rule<\/a> posted online Friday, which is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register next week, that two injunctions issued by federal courts in California and Massachusetts currently bar it from moving ahead with the changes to comply with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/trump-order-election-voting-explainer\">a March executive order<\/a> signed by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/us-postal-service-mail-in-voter-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballots The US Postal Service prepared to publish a final \u2060rule late \u2060on \u200bFriday to impose new requirements on states to provide the federal government with information on voters before the November \u2060midterm congressional elections, despite a \u200bpair of &#8230; <a title=\"US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/us-postal-service-rule-tightens-mail-in-voting-despite-court-orders-blocking-changes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}