US Supreme Court rules out new mail-in voting requirements

Brief retelling from RIA II

The US Supreme Court has banned new requirements for organizing voting by mail.

The new requirements required the transfer of voter lists to the US Postal Service and the establishment of rules for the design of envelopes.

The Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' ban on the enforcement of the normative act.

WASHINGTON, September 15 - RIA Novosti. The US Supreme Court has prohibited the implementation of new requirements for organizing voting by mail, previously established by the American administration, follows from a court decision available to RIA Novosti.

The new requirements required the transfer of voter lists to the US Postal Service, which had to verify recipients with them before delivering ballots. In addition, rules for the design of envelopes were established. Previously, such functions were not assigned to the post office.

As stated in the ruling, the Supreme Court upholds the ban on lower courts from enforcing the regulation.

"It is unlikely that the government will succeed on the merits of its challenge to the district court's order of preliminary injunction," the decision states.