Application 26A305 for a stay of the September 4 injunction

… Service’s efforts to address the risk that the federal mails will be used to perpetrate voter fraud, 91 Fed. Reg. at 54,969—a particularly pernicious species of fraud that dilutes the votes of lawful voters, prevents election results from reflecting the will of the American people, and undermines “public confidence in the integrity of the elec- toral process,” Crawford v. Marion Cnty. Election Bd., 553 U.S. 181, 197 (2008). Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more States will begin the mailing process as the injunction remains in place—including Alabama on September 9 and at least five States the week of September 13. Once those ballot envelopes enter the mailstream, there is no retrieving them. And while the injunction allows the Postal Service and the States to continue taking steps to ensure that their envelopes satisfy the Rule’s requirements, see App., infra, 47a-48a, each day the in- …