{"id":1025625,"date":"2026-08-26T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025625\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:53:28","slug":"ny-nj-ct-among-states-in-coalition-suing-over-final-usps-mail-in-ballots-rule-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025625\/","title":{"rendered":"NY, NJ, CT among states in coalition suing over final USPS mail-in ballots rule \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coalition of Democratic-led states — including New York and New Jersey and Connecticut — have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday morning, over a final rule in the Federal Register that requires states to enroll mail-in voters with the United States Postal Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rule introduces new mailpiece preparation requirements and data reporting standards for Federal Ballot Mail that must be satisfied prior to presenting Outbound Federal Ballot Mail for acceptance into the mailstream,\u201d the USPS rule, finalized this past Friday<\/a> and published to the Federal Register Wednesday, states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rule by the Trump administration forces states to hand over lists of every eligible mail voter to USPS and requires federal pre-approval of ballot envelope designs. Any ballot mailed to or by a voter not on the list, or not using the approved envelope, could be rejected and not delivered — even if the voter is eligible and registered to vote under state law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rule requires States to enroll every eligible mail voter with USPS and tasks USPS with compiling them into State-specific lists. It further establishes design requirements for ballot mail envelopes, including the requirement to use trackable Intelligent Mail barcodes, and provides that USPS must pre-approve States\u2019 ballot envelope designs. When election officials send ballot mail to voters missing from a State\u2019s USPS list or use envelopes that do not comply with the new standards, USPS will not deliver those ballots,\u201d the states allege in the lawsuit <\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed by attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, as well as the Governor of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday press release, New York Attorney said that “the federal government is attempting to meddle in those preparations and potentially threaten countless Americans\u2019 right to vote.”<\/p>\n

The coalition also argues that USPS “has no authority to establish its own federal eligibility requirements to vote by mail or to refuse to transmit ballots to or from voters who are eligible to vote by mail under state law” — an argument that James also backs saying that the new policy will only create confusion among voters. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe USPS has no authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail,” James continued in her press release. “This new policy will just create confusion, unnecessary costs, and unacceptable risks for voters going into Election Day, and my office is going to court to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

James and the coalition also warn that the rule could also disenfranchise voters through administrative errors or technical failures, and that the rule undermines the states\u2019 constitutional authority over elections. <\/p>\n

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in allowing an executive order to move forward that would limit who can receive mail-in ballots ahead the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service\u00a0laid out how it would implement the order<\/a>\u00a0last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn\u2019t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it.<\/p>\n

While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with Trump often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation’s highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy.<\/p>\n

The rule comes at a particularly critical moment for state election officials when many states have already designed and purchased ballot envelopes and equipment. These new requirements could force election officials to “purchase new envelops and equipment, establish new systems for submitting and updating voter information, and train staff \u2013 imposing significant costs and administrative burdens with the election just weeks away,” according to the New York Attorney General’s Office. <\/p>\n

With the midterms fast approaching, the coalition is asking the court to declare the rule unlawful, immediately block USPS from enforcing the rule while the case proceeds, and permanently strike down the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coalition of Democratic-led states — including New York and New Jersey and Connecticut — have filed a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1025626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2738,25223,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1025625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-connecticut","tag-decision-2026","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117162855789615938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}