US Postal Service says mail-in ballot restrictions now in effect
The US Postal Service has confirmed that new restrictions on mail-in ballots, backed by President Donald Trump and upheld by the Supreme Court, are now in effect, even as fresh legal challenges have been filed against them.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced that new restrictions governing the handling of mail-in election ballots are now in effect. The move follows a ruling by the US Supreme Court, which sided with changes to mail-in voting procedures that had been backed by President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court's decision cleared the way for the new rules to be implemented, and USPS's confirmation indicates that the restrictions are now being applied in practice. This means mail-in ballots will now be processed under the updated requirements that the court had approved.
The matter is not fully settled, however. New legal challenges have already been filed against the changes, signalling that the dispute over how mail-in ballots are handled is likely to continue in the courts even as the restrictions take effect.
The USPS decision concerns the procedures the national postal service follows when handling ballots submitted by mail, one of the ways US voters can cast a ballot without going in person to a polling place. The changes backed by President Trump, and the legal fight that has followed, reflect a broader ongoing debate in the United States over the rules governing mail-in voting.
