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mahatmakanejeeves

(71,025 posts)
Fri May 29, 2026, 04:40 PM Friday

Postal Service proposes requiring states to provide mail-in ballot voter lists

Source: CNBC

Postal Service proposes requiring states to provide mail-in ballot voter lists

PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 29 20261:16 PM EDT
Luke Fountain
@LUKE_FOUNTAIN25

KEY POINTS
* The U.S. Postal Service proposed new mail-in ballot rules that would require states to submit voter names, addresses and unique ballot barcodes for federal elections.
* The proposal would set mandatory "best practices" for federal elections including Election Mail logos, tracking barcodes and design reviews.
* The rule follows President Donald Trump's March elections-related executive order and comes one day after a federal judge declined to immediately block the order's mail-voting provision.


A mail-in ballot featuring California's Proposition 50 is seen in this illustration taken in Encinitas, California, U.S., October 21, 2025.
Mike Blake Reuters

The U.S. Postal Service proposed new rules Friday that would require states to provide voter-level data on mail-in ballots in federal elections, one day after a federal judge declined to immediately block President Donald Trump's executive order tightening mail-in voting rules.

The proposal would require states to submit to the Postal Service the names and addresses of voters receiving mail-in or absentee ballots, along with unique barcodes tied to each voter's outbound and return ballot envelopes.

USPS said the rule would help determine how many ballots were mailed and allow officials to compare that figure with the number of ballots returned to detect potential issues for further investigation.

The rule would apply to general, special and runoff federal elections, but not primaries or ballots sent to military and overseas voters.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/postal-service-mail-in-ballot-voter-lists-trump.html



Here's a link to the proposed rule.

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/search?conditions%5Bspecial_filing%5D1&conditions%5Btype%5D%5B%5DPRORULE

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-10968/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections

Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
by the Postal Service scheduled for publication on 06/02/2026.
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https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10968.pdf

This document is unpublished. It is scheduled to be published on 06/02/2026.

Once it is published it will be available on this page in an official form. Until then, you can download the unpublished PDF version.

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Postal Service proposes requiring states to provide mail-in ballot voter lists (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Friday OP
STFU and deliver the mail Steiner. You don't get to make rules or law. pecosbob Friday #1
So, a back-door way for IQ47 to get voter information from the states who've told him to get bent AZJonnie Friday #2
Easier to break vote secrecy. They can open "to verify" and know who you voted for. SharonAnn Yesterday #21
The tools the regime are trying to build will tell them who everyone is likely to vote for AZJonnie Yesterday #22
UGH................... Lovie777 Friday #3
The illegal executive order that mandates coordination with SSA is a... pat_k Friday #4
He may be both, but his excuse was.... reACTIONary Friday #17
Illegal. Period. live love laugh Friday #5
No. There is only one reason why this regime wants to do this shit when no one else has tried or even cared to. Karasu Friday #6
They know how many are mailed idahoblue Friday #7
That would the ENTIRE GOLDEN STATE OF CALIFORNIA usonian Friday #8
just everyone over 18 and a citizen Retrograde Friday #14
Doesn't this run contrary to its consitutional definition of a postal service, namely providing roads to in2herbs Friday #9
Partisan Postal Service? 2na fisherman Friday #10
State election officials KT2000 Friday #11
Each precinct, city, county and state have different ballots, that are all printed and mailed locally FakeNoose Friday #12
Why don't we just get chips implanted in our foreheads? littlemissmartypants Friday #13
Requiring states to submit lists of mail-in voters is not part of the mission of the USPS. summer_in_TX Friday #15
This proposed rule won't be published officially until Monday. So far it doesn't show a docket number. summer_in_TX Friday #16
Why? Figarosmom Yesterday #18
A bar code tied to your name? WTF?? Bengus81 Yesterday #19
Nothin new Gum Logger Yesterday #20
Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should go to churches and find out who isn't putting money in the collection plates! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Yesterday #23
Oh, FFS. It already takes 10 days to get an envelope to me from a bank 8 miles away. Vinca Yesterday #24

AZJonnie

(4,088 posts)
2. So, a back-door way for IQ47 to get voter information from the states who've told him to get bent
Fri May 29, 2026, 04:53 PM
Friday

AND a faceless bureaucracy to blame the problems on when Democrats (and others determined via AI scouring our personal info, social media, etc) don't receive their requested mail-in ballots. OOOPS, it wasn't TRUMP ordering that you don't get your ballot, the POST OFFICE must've just messed up

I believe the master plan here is to obstruct Democrats (specifically) from receiving mail-in ballots, via Federal (i.e. Trumps) intervention.

Also, THIS?

USPS said the rule would help determine how many ballots were mailed and allow officials to compare that figure with the number of ballots returned to detect potential issues for further investigation.


Is FUCKING BULLSHIT. All of that is already (since LONG AGO) audited, by ELECTION OFFICIALS, and in bipartisan fashion.

SharonAnn

(14,180 posts)
21. Easier to break vote secrecy. They can open "to verify" and know who you voted for.
Sat May 30, 2026, 08:18 AM
Yesterday

That’s the real purpose.

AZJonnie

(4,088 posts)
22. The tools the regime are trying to build will tell them who everyone is likely to vote for
Sat May 30, 2026, 01:58 PM
Yesterday

The demanding of the voter rolls, all the DOGE data theft, the heavy push for AI-everything? That's all part of the same plan, which is an AI-driven database of who Americans are likely to vote for, how they lean politically. They will take the information they glean and use their control over the USPS to deny mail-in ballots to enough people to swing elections in their favor.

They don't have to open up the ballots and read votes, they'll KNOW who your ballot is likely to contain votes for, and just not send it to you. AI will assess the likelihood whether you are someone who would be unlikely to show up at the polls if you don't receive your mail-in ballot as well. It will targeted and strategic, they don't need to fuck with the vote everywhere. Mostly it'll be black people and brown people living in swing districts who are targeted/don't receive their ballots.

It'll be enough that people will notice it's happening for sure, but the regime will blame it on the "notorious inefficiency of the failing USPS", nothing to do with anything THEY did. The entirety of magadom (and the Russian bots) will convey this from every possible angle, and the M$M will go along with their story. The confusion will not be solved early enough thru the courts to stop the congresscritters that "won" from being sat.

November is being set up to be stolen right in front of our eyes, and eventually, their surveillance database will be used for even worse shit.

Lovie777

(23,914 posts)
3. UGH...................
Fri May 29, 2026, 04:53 PM
Friday

the constant ways to fuck with voters is pissing them off.

Vote Republicans out across board.

DAMN.

pat_k

(14,002 posts)
4. The illegal executive order that mandates coordination with SSA is a...
Fri May 29, 2026, 04:55 PM
Friday

... guaranteed way to suppress the votes of younger more mobile people in favor of those collecting social security (for which SSA is more likely to have accurate information).

The judge that failed to block so a blatant voter suppression tactic right out of the gate is either an idiot or corrupt.

reACTIONary

(7,327 posts)
17. He may be both, but his excuse was....
Fri May 29, 2026, 10:33 PM
Friday

.... that there was not yet any substantive action to implement the executive order. This may provide a basis to get that determination overturned.

Karasu

(2,128 posts)
6. No. There is only one reason why this regime wants to do this shit when no one else has tried or even cared to.
Fri May 29, 2026, 05:05 PM
Friday

idahoblue

(458 posts)
7. They know how many are mailed
Fri May 29, 2026, 05:11 PM
Friday

They know how many are returned and who did not return their ballot. There is no purpose except to increase the cost of voting and to add another layer of bullshit.

usonian

(26,704 posts)
8. That would the ENTIRE GOLDEN STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Fri May 29, 2026, 05:49 PM
Friday

Pardon the all-caps.

We do have a nice home for him.

GREAT VIEWS



AND!!! Fabulous protection from assault by LIBS.
Safe and secure from them, protected by iron bars.



His entire family can join him there.

But if he wants a golf course, he'll have to pay for it on his own nickel (or $250 bill)

Retrograde

(11,454 posts)
14. just everyone over 18 and a citizen
Fri May 29, 2026, 09:33 PM
Friday

Which is still ~30 million people, give or take afre million. California, like the other West Coast states, mails ballots to all registered voters, and people can still register at the voting centers on election day

in2herbs

(4,589 posts)
9. Doesn't this run contrary to its consitutional definition of a postal service, namely providing roads to
Fri May 29, 2026, 06:03 PM
Friday

accomplish delivery, and if so, wouldn't this "inclusion" require Congressional approval for the USPS to be involved in directing mailing rather than simply a delivery service????? nt

2na fisherman

(373 posts)
10. Partisan Postal Service?
Fri May 29, 2026, 06:30 PM
Friday

What if they flagged all mail-in ballots by those voters on lists as registered Democrats? Trump's lackeys in charge of the Post Office would become the sole arbiters of which ballots are referred for "further investigation." This would easily be done to tip the scales in favor of Republicans. This proposal paves the way for institutionalized voter disenfranchisement with little accountability. I don't think the Postal Service has a legal right to police elections in this manner.

KT2000

(22,237 posts)
11. State election officials
Fri May 29, 2026, 06:33 PM
Friday

know who they send the ballots to and that is enough.

They want a back door for federal interference in elections.

FakeNoose

(42,598 posts)
12. Each precinct, city, county and state have different ballots, that are all printed and mailed locally
Fri May 29, 2026, 07:06 PM
Friday

How could the federal government get the correct ballots mailed to the correct voters?

IT CAN'T and it won't. The entire idea is a disaster and it cannot be allowed. It can't even be attempted.

I know my Governor Josh Shapiro will fight this to the end. I'm sure every other sensible, intelligent Governor (D and R) will do the same.

littlemissmartypants

(34,664 posts)
13. Why don't we just get chips implanted in our foreheads?
Fri May 29, 2026, 08:13 PM
Friday

Or QR Code tattoos?

Then, we can be scanned every time we vote.

The federal government doesn't run elections. As much as the regime's lackeys would like them to.

FDT

summer_in_TX

(4,318 posts)
15. Requiring states to submit lists of mail-in voters is not part of the mission of the USPS.
Fri May 29, 2026, 09:34 PM
Friday
The Postal Service’s mission is to provide the nation with reliable, affordable, universal mail service. The basic functions of the Postal Service were established in 39 U.S.C. § 101(a): “The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities.”


The only thing I can find that might be twisted to make the argument that states must submit lists of mail-in voters to the USPS is this analysis:

The postal powers of Congress embrace all measures necessary to insure the safe and speedy transit and prompt delivery of the mails.4 And not only are the mails under the protection of the National Government, they are in contemplation of law its property.

summer_in_TX

(4,318 posts)
16. This proposed rule won't be published officially until Monday. So far it doesn't show a docket number.
Fri May 29, 2026, 09:41 PM
Friday

So we cannot comment until then.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,320 posts)
23. Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should go to churches and find out who isn't putting money in the collection plates!
Sat May 30, 2026, 02:20 PM
Yesterday

Moral of the story, leave my voting alone.

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