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Postal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From #VotingByMail
A judge temporarily blocked the agency from refusing to deliver ballots in #noncompliant states, which could disproportionately affect #Democrats and many battleground elections.
By Reid J. Epstein, Aug. 30, 2026
Excerpt: "Voting by mail would become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of millions of Americans if the #USPostalService is allowed to implement a restrictive rule governing mail voting that President Trump has demanded.
"The effects would likely be greater for #DemocraticVoters, who vote by mail in higher numbers than #Republicans, and in states where mail voting is universal or nearly so. #MailVoting may not happen at all in states that resist the #Trump administration’s demands for #VoterData .
"The rule would particularly affect people in #rural areas and #OlderVoters, who tend to cast ballots by mail in greater numbers. It could also deeply affect states where some of the most competitive races for House, Senate and governor will determine control of Congress and state governments.
" #Michigan, where 37 percent of votes were cast by mail in 2022, would be one epicenter, with hard-fought statewide contests and multiple battleground House races. #California, which mails ballots to all voters, is expected to be central to Democratic efforts to win a majority in the House.
"The rule is being challenged in several lawsuits, and it is on hold temporarily following a federal judge’s ruling on Thursday. The administration is appealing. Even if the Postal Service is permitted to proceed, it is unclear that it would have time to implement the plan ahead of an election that is fewer than 70 days away.
"For instance, the rule requires states to upload a list of voters to a federal mail ballot portal that is not yet online. Nearly two dozen Democratic-led states and #WashingtonDC , have sued to block the proposed rule and said they will not comply with it.
"If the agency were to move ahead, state and local officials would shoulder enormous costs in what would need to be a herculean effort to prepare election offices and educate voters in time for the midterm elections in November.
"The most dramatic aspect of the proposed rule is a plan to deny services for election mail entirely in states that do not turn over #VoterData, which federal officials say they want to use to identify noncitizens on state #VoterRolls. The policy would upend mail voting in any state that does not comply, but the effects would be measurably greater in the smaller number of states that rely heavily on mail voting.
"More than one in three Democrats voted by mail in 2024, compared with about one in four Republicans, according to estimates by the States United Democracy Center, which examined voting data in 32 states where it was available.
" 'It’s not that complicated,' said Marc Elias, the Democratic election lawyer, who said the new policy was a blatant effort to disenfranchise Democrats. 'The administration knows that Democrats are more likely to vote by mail than Republicans. Donald Trump has demonized voting by mail and made that differential even greater.' "
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/us/politics/mail-voting-trump-midterms-supreme-court.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/3A3nw#USPol #Elections2026 #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterIntimidation #Fascists #CharacteristicsOfFascism #LiteracyTests
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#ICE Wants the Country’s #VoterData
#Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a federal contractor to provide it with access to the country’s #voter registration and voter history data, according to newly released procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
The procurement records say ICE is seeking the data to help detect fraud. But given the administration’s habit of using fraud as a pretense for large immigration enforcement actions, and President Trump’s constant comments about #election #security in the lead up to the #midterms , the planned hiring of a contractor to handle voter data raises questions around what exactly ICE plans to do with the data.
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Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk to Testify in Lawsuit Over America PAC Voter Data Collection
📰 Original title: Federal judge orders Musk deposition in voter data lawsuit
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Federal court rules #Maine does not need to hand over #VoterData to DOJ
WMTW, Thu, May 21, 2026
"A judge has ruled in favor of Maine Secretary of State #ShennaBellows, saying the state does not need to hand over voter data to the federal government."
Watch:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/federal-court-rules-maine-does-214009501.html#USPol #MainePol #MaineResists #VoterDisenfranchisement #TrumpSucks
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Maricopa County Recorder under scrutiny after emails about election records #MaricopaCounty #JustinHeap #ArizonaPolitics #ElectionRecords #VoterData #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVdwnvKfLU
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FYI: Deep Sync and MiQ cut voter data activation from days to hours: Deep Sync and MiQ expand their programmatic political advertising partnership for 2026 midterms, promising voter data activation in under one hour and 53% more reach. https://ppc.land/deep-sync-and-miq-cut-voter-data-activation-from-days-to-hours/ #PoliticalAdvertising #VoterData #ProgrammaticAds #Election2026 #DigitalMarketing
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Trump's DOJ is suing 30 states to seize voter SSNs, addresses and birthdates. West Virginia said NO — twice. Advocates just intervened in court. 🗳️ They want your data.
#VoterData #WestVirginia #DOJ #VotingRights #ElectionIntegrity #ACLU #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle -
ICYMI: Deep Sync and MiQ cut voter data activation from days to hours: Deep Sync and MiQ expand their programmatic political advertising partnership for 2026 midterms, promising voter data activation in under one hour and 53% more reach. https://ppc.land/deep-sync-and-miq-cut-voter-data-activation-from-days-to-hours/ #PoliticalAdvertising #VoterData #ProgrammaticAds #2026Elections #DigitalMarketing
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@PrivacyDigest Voter data requests follow the same pattern as API credential harvesting: extract pieces from many sources, aggregate centrally.
States applying data minimization to voter records are doing what security engineers do to sensitive APIs — limit exposure at the source.
Federated verification without centralized collection is technically feasible. The constraint isn't infrastructure.
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Canada’s three main federal political parties are working together to fight voter privacy rights
#Canada #Politics #PrivacyRights #DataPrivacy #VoterData #DigitalRights #BillC4 #Democracy #CivilRights #Tech #Law #DataProtection #SurveillancePolitics
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—>> #MSNOW ⦁ #ChrisJansing Reports <<— #Minnesota Secretary of State #SteveSimon tells #Bondi ‘No' After #AG #PamBondi Requested #VoterData ⏱️06:18 #Trump #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/qNCfynLnhM0
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Texas has handed over its voter roll, covering 18.4 million registered voters, to the Justice Department, complying with federal demands amid ongoing legal battles. The data includes sensitive info like DOB, driver’s license, and last four SSN digits, raising privacy concerns. Critics argue this threatens voter privacy and could unlawfully purge eligible voters, with the DNC calling it a “power grab.” The DOJ claims it’s lawful, aiming to enforce election laws and clean voter rolls. This standoff highlights partisan tensions over voting data and election integrity. Want the full story? https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/texas-voter-roll-trump-administration-justice-department-democrats-dnc/ #VotingRights #ElectionSecurity #VoterData #Texas #JusticeDepartment #VoterPrivacy #electionlaw
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WARNING: Trump’s 2026 Plan to Weaponize Your Voter Data - https://youtu.be/YznAxP02zhM?si=edVb5n3XBdfOCeBf #VoterData #DataWeaponization #ElectionRigging #Midterms #MidtermElections #MidtermRigging #MarcElias #VotingRights #DOJ #TrumpDOJ #VoterSuppression #ElectionSubversion
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They tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington – US elections 2020 – The Guardian
‘The federal government is no longer a trusted partner in democracy,’ the Colorado secretary of state, Jena Griswold, says. Composite: Rita Liu / The Guardian / Getty ImagesThey tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington
Those who tried to overturn the 2020 election now occupy key federal roles, shaping rules and sowing doubt for 2026
Published Sat 29 Nov 2025 07.00 EST
The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president, they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government. Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department. An election denier, Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the department of homeland security. Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved in the “stop the steal” movement, is now a special government employee investigating the 2020 election.
A movement that once pressured elected officials to bend to its whims is now part of the government.
“The call is literally coming from inside the house,” said Joanna Lydgate, co-founder and chief executive officer of the States United Democracy Center. “Now it has its tentacles in the White House, in Congress and federal agencies, and with outside groups really feeding into that infrastructure.”
The Trump administration is going after states with dubious requests for voter data that could ensnare qualified voters and will serve as an underpinning for future claims of fraud. They are working to install rules that limit voter access or sow seeds of distrust in who can vote and how. Trump has put federal agents in cities around the country, raising fears that officers could be tapped for election purposes.
“All of this, while focused on past elections, is misdirection about what the actual intention likely is, which is to interfere with the 2026 elections and attempt to delegitimize them if the president’s party doesn’t do well,” said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. The results of the 2025 off-year elections, in which Democrats saw big wins, likely “strengthen the administration’s resolve to interfere in state elections and to further spread doubt about outcomes”, he said.
Some state and local elections officials say they no longer have working relationships with the federal government and do not trust the expertise they used to tap into on election security.
“The federal government is no longer a trusted partner in democracy,” Jena Griswold, the Democratic secretary of state in Colorado, told the Guardian.
Arizona secretary of state, Adrian Fontes, said: “There would have to be a significant shift in the rhetoric and the attitude coming out of senior leadership in the administration before I open my door and say, ‘Yeah, you guys, come on in.’ It’d be foolish of me to let the fox into the hen house.”
Asked for comment, the White House did not address questions about what authority Trump believes he has over elections or whether he would use emergency powers to take control of elections, as election experts fear he may.
What have they done with their power?
Trump’s 2024 win ignited the promotion of election denialism, both in the ranks of the president known to reward loyalty and in outside groups that had long been lobbying for new laws and policies that fit with their false claims of rampant election fraud.
On the first day of Trump’s term, he granted clemency to all those who stormed the Capitol in the January 6 insurrection. By November, he issued dozens of preemptive pardons for those involved in a fake electors scheme and other attempts to subvert the 2020 elections results. Ed Martin, a stop the steal activist, has assisted with pardons.
Lydgate, of States United, said the administration’s strategy on elections is “death by 1,000 cuts, with the goal of making sure that this group of election deniers can get the results that they want”.
The three key pillars of the strategy, she said, are taking power away from nonpartisan elections officials, overwhelming election administrators with frivolous work and threats, and attempting to shape the electorate in their favor by removing them from the rolls.
“There have always been political leaders who complain about the results of elections, but not in this way where you are trying to discredit the entire system and that you’re channeling the resources of the federal government in furtherance of that measure,” said Derek Tisler, counsel and manager in the Brennan Center’s elections and government program.
Election activists helped draft a bill that would require people to prove their citizenship in order to vote. When the US House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) Act, Cleta Mitchell, the leader of an influential “election integrity” group, was presented with the vote count card.
When Trump issued an executive order in March about “preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections”, it appeared similar to a “US Citizens Elections Bill of Rights” that Mitchell had promoted, with both calling for documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. Much of the executive order has been stalled by the courts.
The quest for widespread citizenship verification among election activists convinced that high numbers of non-citizens are voting led to an expanded, controversial use of a system intended to screen for citizenship for public benefits, not voting. The Trump administration has said it expanded the service to search more databases and allow election officials to search for people in large batches instead of individually. Officials reportedly briefed Mitchell’s group to explain the new uses. Voting rights groups have sued over this expansion.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: They tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington | US elections 2020 | The Guardian
Tags: Adrian Fontes, Arizona, Colorado, Harmeet Dhillon, Heather Honey, In Power, Jena Griswold, Kurt Olsen, Overturn 2020 Election, SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Elibibility), The Guardian, Trump's Washington, U.S. States Voter Data, US Citizens Elections Bill of Rights, Voter Data, Washington DC#adrianFontes #arizona #colorado #harmeetDhillon #heatherHoney #inPower #jenaGriswold #kurtOlsen #overturn2020Election #saveSafeguardAmericanVoterElibibility #theGuardian #trumpsWashington #uSStatesVoterData #usCitizensElectionsBillOfRights #voterData #washingtonDc
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#DOJ #VoterData
STATES RIGHTS! Am I right? 🤨
The US Constitution gives administration of elections and voting explicitly to each of the states.DOJ sues six states to hand over their voter registration lists - UPI.com
"The Trump administration is suing six Democratic-led states to force them to hand over their voter registration lists, further raising concerns about alleged efforts by the Trump administration to undermine elections."
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Secretaries of state for #Michigan & #Nevada said in a Tuesday news conference that they & other secretaries will coordinate to oppose a wide-ranging #federal request for #VoterData.
The #Trump #DOJ earlier this month announced it has sued #Oregon & #Maine for failing to turn over their voter registration lists. That was the first time it brought lawsuits against #states in its effort to get detailed voter data.
#law #ElectionLaw #privacy
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#Texas #Republican Lt. Gov. #DanPatrick 's attempted narrative that Texas is a red state by a huge majority and therefore they "deserve" to #gerrymander against their residents gets BLOWN APART by #VoterData revealing just how close to even the state is between blue and red youtu.be/8at2UDvmpFY?...
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Maine Secretary of State refuses to give voting data to DOJ. Tells it to jump in the Gulf of Maine. 👏👍
#doj
#Maine
#voterdata
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/07/31/maine-secretary-of-state-tells-doj-to-go-jump-in-the-gulf-of-maine-after-refusing-voting-records-request/ -
I wonder if the State of Nebraska has sold my voter registration information to campaigns, because I am getting a shit ton of text messages claiming to be for Harris for president or other federal races
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4.6 Million Illinois Voter and Election Related Documents Exposed Online https://thecyberexpress.com/4-6-million-illinois-voter-data-and-election/ #PlatinumTechnologyResource #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #ballottemplates #TheCyberExpress #JeremiahFowler #voterrecords #46Million #VoterData #Voter
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Millions of US Voter Data Exposed in 13 Misconfigured Databases https://hackread.com/millions-us-voter-data-exposed-misconfigured-databases/ #Misconfiguration #Cybersecurity #databreach #VoterData #Security #Illinois #security #Privacy #Leaks #US
