A pandemic-era settlement geared toward speeding up delivery of mail-in ballots can’t stop the the United States Postal Service from overhauling election mail rules, the Justice Department claims.
The US District Court for the District of Columbia should deny the NAACP’s bid to use a deal struck with USPS during the Biden administration to block Trump administration efforts to require verified voter lists for mail-in ballots, the federal government argued in a brief filed Thursday.
There “are no plausible concerns, certainly at this stage, that the Proposed Rule would negatively impact USPS’s ability to timely and reliably deliver Election Mail. ...