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A group of Democratic governors asked the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday to withdraw its proposed rule seeking to implement an executive order from President Donald Trump to create a federal list of eligible voters and potentially limit who can receive a ballot in the mail.<\/p>\n

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The president signed the order in March. It directs U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Social Security Administration to create a \u201ccitizenship list\u201d for each state and the Postal Service to limit mailed ballots to those on the lists.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service filed a proposed rule to implement the order in late May. Since then, a federal judge has blocked Trump’s executive order and barred agencies from implementing it, saying it was unconstitutional because only states and Congress \u2014 not the president \u2014 have the power to set election rules.<\/p>\n

The letter sent Thursday was an effort organized by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and included eight other Democratic governors \u2014 from California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. It cited the judge’s ruling and asked that the Postal Service withdraw the rule it had proposed to fulfill Trump’s order.<\/p>\n

\u201cFar from ensuring integrity in federal elections,” they wrote in the six-page letter, \u201cthe Proposed Rule would undermine trust in elections, needlessly complicate voting processes, arbitrarily disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, and undermine states\u2019 constitutional role in ensuring free and fair elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed rule would grant, they argued, \u201cunilateral power to refuse to deliver their ballots if a state refuses to collaborate with President Trump\u2019s unlawful directives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Postal Service did not immediately respond to calls and emails seeking comment. It had filed the proposed rule in the Federal Register after a judge considering a separate lawsuit against Trump’s executive order declined to block it because the administration \u2014 at that point \u2014 had not taken steps to implement it. The Democratic and civil rights groups that filed that lawsuit have appealed the ruling.<\/p>\n

The executive order also met pushback from postal workers, with the president of the American Postal Workers union, Jonathan Smith, previously saying that their job was not to \u201cverify voter eligibility\u201d but to \u201cmove mail from one destination to the next.”<\/p>\n

It was the second executive order seeking oversight of elections that Trump has signed since returning to office. The centerpiece of his first order, which also has been blocked by the courts, sought to require people to show documented proof of citizenship to register to vote.<\/p>\n

Both orders revolve around Trump’s targeting of voting by noncitizens, which studies and investigations by state and local authorities have shown to be rare. Trump also has fixated on voting by mail as a source of fraud, even though he also uses the method.<\/p>\n

There is no indication of any widespread problems with mail voting, which has gained in popularity among Democrats and Republicans alike. A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that the number of cases of mail voting fraud was minuscule \u2014 about four cases per 10 million mail ballots.<\/p>\n

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