By Jacob Bogage and David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) – The NAACP asked a federal court Wednesday to revive a 2020 lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to challenge the Trump administration’s new restrictions on mail-in voting, arguing that the agency’s proposed rule violates a settlement agreement requiring expedited handling of mailed ballots.
The Postal Service last week proposed a rule to require states to provide lists of voters before the mail agency would deliver ballots. In its motion before the District Court for the District of Columbia, the NAACP claimed the USPS rule would create a process “that directly violates its obligations under the agreement.”
The group asked a U.S. judge to quickly get involved, saying the plan could “prevent millions of eligible voters from receiving mail-in ballots to which they are entitled.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said without evidence that voting by mail is more vulnerable to fraud.
(Reporting by David Shepardson and Jacob Bogage)
