"Talwani’s order — her latest of several halting the plan this summer — came after a Postal Service whistleblower alleged the agency’s new computer systems for the project are fundamentally flawed, a top Postal Service official acknowledged a key online portal was unfinished and the Trump administration filed an emergency petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the plans to proceed anyway.
All this unfolded this week as some of the first mail ballots of the election cycle started to go out.
The new rules — which Trump required in a March executive order — would require states to submit complete voter lists to the Postal Service and to adopt new ballot envelopes with individualized voter bar codes designed by the Postal Service, and empower the Postal Service to reject any mail ballots that don’t match those lists."
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