The Supreme Court leaves the mail-ballot rule blocked
The Postal Service's new rule told election offices to mail ballots in approved envelopes with a barcode for every voter and to enroll each ballot recipient in an online portal, and said outbound ballot mailings that did not comply would be returned to the authorized ballot mailer, an election official or a mail service provider that official has authorized to send the ballots; the check did not apply to voters' returned ballots. On September 14 the Supreme Court refused the government's request to lift a judge's block on those requirements, so they stay blocked for elections through November 3, 50 days later. The Court did not rule on the March executive order behind the rule, and the one justice who explained a vote to deny the stay wrote that the Postal Service may well have the power to issue such a rule for a later election.
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