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The U.S. Postal Service has implemented new restrictions on mail-in voting procedures that are now in effect across the country. The restrictions face ongoing legal challenges from voting rights advocates.
The USPS has rolled out new procedural restrictions on mail-in voting across all 50 states, and they're now live. Voting rights groups have filed multiple legal challenges, but those cases are still moving through the courts while the restrictions are already in effect. That timing matters: people requesting mail ballots will encounter these new procedures immediately, regardless of whether courts eventually strike them down.
This isn't a minor tweak to voting administration. Mail-in voting has become a core part of how Americans cast ballots—it surged during the pandemic and stayed high. Restricting how it works at the postal service level touches millions of voters, not just a handful of edge cases. The gap between when restrictions take effect and when courts can rule on them has become a real problem in voting law: the burden shifts to proving harm after people have already been locked out.
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