Midterm Mail Ballots Start to Go to Voters as Litigation over Trump's Order Creates Uncertainty

Midterm mail ballots start to go to voters as litigation over Trump's order creates uncertainty

Statewide mail voting for this year’s midterm elections kicked off Friday amid a churning legal battle over President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit the practice and mounting concern over Postal Service changes that some state officials blame for a rise…

Colorado prepares to mail ballots as usual despite order

(The Center Square) – Colorado is set to mail ballots to all of its registered voters for the November midterm elections as usual despite ongoing litigation surrounding a federal order and conflicting judicial rulings about the U.S. Postal Service.  The election preparations were continuing Thursday in Denver on the same day that a hearing was scheduled in the U.S. District Court in Boston on a preliminary injunction to block the new mail-in bal…

USPS Officials Warned New Mail Voting Rules Could Mean Mass Disenfranchisement

Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process, come as a separate anonymous feder…

Media’s Misleading Voting Coverage Poses Dangers

Several media organizations failed in their coverage of the federal courts’ actions on Trump’s executive order about mail-in voting.

Trump’s war on mail-in ballots has voters baffled. That may be the point

President Donald Trump’s legal and rhetorical assault on voting by mail — and the flurry of contradictory court decisions around it — has left voters confused and local officials scrambling just eight weeks before November’s critical midterm elections.

U.S. Midterm Mail Voting Begins Amid Legal Battle Over Trump Restrictions

The US midterm election season entered a new phase as North Carolina began sending mail ballots to voters, while a federal court blocked the Trump administration from implementing new restrictions on mail voting.