Key Facts

• The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s plan to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.
• The plan included requiring states to use a uniform envelope and upload voter lists to an online portal.
• The U.S. Postal Service could have refused to deliver ballots from states that didn’t follow these new rules.
• Some states had already started sending mail ballots using the old system before the new rules could take effect.
• A whistleblower warned that mistakes in the new portal could cause millions of ballots to be discarded.
• Courts blocked the plan, saying the president has no constitutional power to change mail voting rules like this.
• The Supreme Court allowed the government to challenge the ruling but did not make a final decision on the plan’s legality.
• President Trump has criticized mail voting, wrongly blaming it for his 2020 election loss, even though he votes by mail himself.