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🧵 (1/5) 📬 Under a new Trump administration proposal, your mail-in ballot could be rejected before it ever reaches you. The Postal Service would be required to turn away ballots from states that don’t hand over voter data to the federal government.

(2/5) The proposed rule requires state election officials to submit a list of every mail ballot recipient to USPS at least 30 days before they’re sent out. But if voters are not on the list, they will not receive a ballot.

(3/5) The rule also allows state officials to add or update voters on the list until the last day ballots may be mailed out to voters under state law. This WILL lead to errors that will impact voters.

(4/5) The rule stems from an executive order Trump signed in March directing USPS to take new steps around mail ballot transmission. The order faces multiple lawsuits.

A federal judge has upheld this order. It needs to be appealed ASAP. The constitution gives states, not the Republican Party, the power over elections.

He upheld it because the Post Office hadn't acted on it yet. That was the issue.

An illegal order is illegal. You can bet there are other judges who would have ruled against the federal government stepping on states’ rights or simply attempting to

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