D.C. Memo: Postal service seeks voter lists from states — or else

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new rule that could impact Minnesota’s mail-in and absentee ballots ahead of this year’s midterm election.

It offers states a dire choice: give the USPS lists of all voters who would receive mail ballots or risk losing the ability to mail those ballots.

More than 1.3 million Minnesotans voted by mail or absentee ballot in the 2024 election, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office. 

The proposed rule by the independent government agency also lays out other new conditions that states would have to meet to send ballots through the mail and gives the USPS unprecedented authority over federal elections.

The postal service issued the rule in response to a directive President Donald Trump issued March 31 because of what the president insists — without proof — is widespread fraud in American election...