A federal appeals court panel temporarily halted a lower court injunction on July 17, 2026, allowing the U.
S.
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Postal Service to proceed with a controversial proposal to tighten restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.
The three-judge panel for the D. C.
Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay on an order issued by U. S.
District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who had blocked the federal agency from implementing new mail ballot regulations.
Proposed Regulations and Legal Challenges
Originating from President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive order on election integrity, the proposed Postal Service regulations would require state election officials to submit detailed voter lists, complete with unique ballot barcodes, before election mail is transmitted.
Under the policy, federal authorities could refuse to process or deliver election ballots in states that fail to provide approved voter registries or meet the new technical formatting requirements.
During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing last month, lawmakers questioned Postal Service leadership regarding the compliance mandates and potential ballot delivery refusals.
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich.
, asked Postmaster General David Steiner: “Yes or no -- if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?”
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Steiner confirmed the strict enforcement mechanism: “Under our proposed regulation, no. We would tell the state that we need the manifest.”
