USPS would not mail ballots from states refusing to share voter lists
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U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner told Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters, D-Mich., during Wednesday’s hearing that under the proposed rule, if a state refuses to provide a list of absentee voters to the federal government, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) would not mail election ballots in that state.
Peters asked Steiner if, under the proposal, the USPS would send ballots from a state that “refuses” to provide the federal government with the state’s list of absentee voters.
“According to the regulation we propose, no,” Steiner said.
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David Steiner, postmaster general of the United States Postal Service (USPS), is sworn in at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“All this does, the senator, is to make sure that the ballots that a state believes it has sent match the ballots that have actually been sent,” he said.
Part of the proposed rule, which relates to federal election voting, would create a process by which states “will notify the Postal Service of individuals to whom they send mail-in or absentee ballots and the unique barcode applied to outgoing and return ballot mailing envelopes for such individuals, so that the voter’s name and barcode will be included in the Mail-in and Absentee Participation List.” offer.
The proposal states that “states may thereafter add to or modify the list of registered persons until the last day on which ballots may be mailed to individuals in accordance with state law,” and that “the Postal Service will provide to each state’s chief election official a final State-Specific Mail-In and Absentee Participation List that includes the names of all registered individuals in that state and the bar codes associated with those individuals’ mail-in or absentee ballots.”
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“This administration’s effort to nationalize elections and ensure that the federal government has this information is an extremely dangerous precedent,” Peters said.
“We need to protect the integrity of the voting rolls. We need to preserve the separation of elections from the federal government and ensure that our state and local governments administer their own elections,” he said.
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Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, during a hearing Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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