Lawmakers have slammed Postmaster General David Steiner after he announced that a proposed new rule would mean the United States Postal Service (USPS) won’t deliver mail ballots unless states share their voter lists with the Trump administration.
Testifying before a Senate committee on Wednesday, Steiner was asked if USPS would still mail out ballots to states that refused to hand over their absentee voter lists. “No,” he responded. “We would tell the state that we need the manifest.”
This is called voter suppression. It’s bad.
The new proposal from the USPS, which has traditionally been nonpartisan and neutral, arises from President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive order.
The order, titled “Ensuring Citizen Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” marked one of the administration’s most sweeping efforts to reshape election administration and mail voting rules ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The order directed federal agencies to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote by mail, instructed the USPS to send absentee ballots only to voters on approved lists, and called for ballot-tracking measures including unique barcodes on mail ballot envelopes.
In other words suppress as many votes as possible.
Trump has repeatedly criticized mail voting and argued that it increases the risk of election fraud, despite election officials from both parties consistently saying that widespread voter fraud is rare. The president has continued to push for tighter restrictions on mail ballots since returning to office in January 2025, making the issue a central part of his election-integrity agenda.
“Mail-in voting is totally corrupt—get that through your head, it has to be,” he said during a Michigan rally on February 17, 2024.
You know who is genuinely corrupt?
Yes, of course you do. We all do.
H/t marcel proust
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