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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.
The president signed the order in March. It directs U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Social Security Administration to create a “citizenship list” for each state and the Postal Service to limit mailed ballots to those on the lists.
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 — not the president — have the power to set election rules.
The letter sent Thursday by nine Democratic governors, including those representing California, New York and the presidential battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, cited the judge’s ruling and asked that the Postal Service withdraw the rule it had proposed to fulfill Trump’s order.
“Far from ensuring integrity in federal elect...
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