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Voting Rights Groups Challenge Executive Order on Mail-In Ballots as Illegal Interference in Elections

Apr 5, 2026

From the April 2, 2026 Press Release

 

BOSTON, MA – A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging President Trump’s March 31 executive order concerning mail-in voting. The Constitution explicitly states that only Congress and the states can set the rules for elections. Nevertheless, the order attempts to displace states’ mail-in voting laws by transforming the US Postal Service from a neutral mail carrier to an arbiter of who may cast a ballot by mail.

Read more here….https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/voting-rights-groups-challenge-executive-order-mail-ballots-illegal

 

 

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