\u201cUnder our proposed regulation, no,\u201d Steiner replied. \u201cWe would tell the state that we need the manifest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peters called the proposed rule \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the proposed rule basically coerces states to conform to these new requirements and hand over their absentee voter rolls, or face the consequences of not being able to vote by mail,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n
Steiner argued that the proposed rule would \u201cmake sure that we match the ballots that a state believes they\u2019re sending out to what actually gets sent out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the state gives us is a list of here are the voters that are supposed to get ballots and here are the ballots. We then compare the two, make sure the ballots that are supposed to get sent, get sent,\u201d Steiner said. \u201cI would think that states would want the information to ensure that the ballots that they think they\u2019re sending out are the ballots that are actually being sent out.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Democrats have expressed concerns about Trump\u2019s Executive Order and the Postal Service\u2019s proposed rule, claiming that both are signs of the President trying to exert federal authority over elections. Trump has, on many occasions, made false claims about election fraud that he professed occurred via voting by mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnder our proposed regulation, no,\u201d Steiner replied. \u201cWe would tell the state that we need the manifest.\u201d Peters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,7688,123131,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-725750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-post-office","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}