USPS announces new guidelines for mail-in ballots

The United States Postal Service announced new guidelines for mail-in ballots on Friday. The new policy, following a May executive order from President Donald Trump, gives states 60 days before the November 3 midterm elections to inform the usps if they intend to submit lists of voters per citizenship data. The Postal Service will only send out mail-in ballots or absentee ballots with that information. On August 12, Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a ruling to block President Trump’s executive order. The leadership of the usps, which is a federal agency reporting to the president, must now decide whether to mail ballots to people not recorded as citizens, which could produce an electoral and constitutional crisis.