{"id":330560,"date":"2026-08-26T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330560\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:20:10","slug":"vermont-new-york-join-lawsuit-against-usps-over-mail-in-ballot-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330560\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont, New York join lawsuit against USPS over mail-in ballot rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont and New York join lawsuit against USPS over mail-in ballot rule<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Vermont and New York have joined more than 20 other states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service over a new rule governing mail-in ballots.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The rule requires states to register voters with the Postal Service, follow new ballot-envelope standards, and receive federal approval. Ballots that do not meet those requirements, or are addressed to voters missing from Postal Service lists, would not be delivered.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The attorneys general argue the rule &#8220;unconstitutionally interferes with states&#8217; authority to administer elections&#8221; and that &#8220;it could disenfranchise eligible voters.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The coalition is asking a court to strike down the rule and temporarily block it while the lawsuit moves forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vermont and New York join lawsuit against USPS over mail-in ballot rule Vermont and New York have joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13355,3591,56294,3100,124471,124472,48502,124473,64540,9,11,10,36002,26265,11340,7988,1069,26266,8161,1634,18052,6951],"class_list":["post-330560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-authority","tag-coalition","tag-federal-approval","tag-lawsuit","tag-mail-in-ballots","tag-mail-in-ballot-rule","tag-midterm-election","tag-new-ballot-envelope-standard","tag-new-rule","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-other-state","tag-postal-service","tag-rules","tag-states","tag-trump","tag-u-s-postal-service","tag-usps","tag-vermont","tag-voter","tag-wptz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}