On Friday, a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously paused a lower‑court injunction that had temporarily blocked the USPS from finalising and enforcing the new ballot‑delivery rule.
The rule would permit the Postal Service to withhold delivery of mail‑in and absentee ballots where state officials decline to send certain voter data to federal authorities. In practice, that sets up a confrontation between states determined to guard sensitive voter information and a federal agency now claiming it cannot guarantee accurate ballot delivery without it.
First, republicans will still vote by mail, just like Trump himself does. Democrats think that they will somehow be embarrassed by the hypocrisy. Republicans don’t care. They know it’s just a tactic.
The point of all this anti mail-in ballots rhetoric is to give them control over the votes. It’s just another reason they can use to discard some of them. They will have 0 issues applying some rules to votes from Democratic areas and ignoring those rules in Republican districts. It’s hard for them to insert themselves in the vote counting process of in-person votes in Democratic districts and manipulate the results. With mail-in votes it’s possible. This is what they are doing.