Submit a Comment Objecting to Vote-by-Mail Takeover

Tell USPS: Hands Off Our Right to Vote-by-Mail

Under pressure from the White House, the Postal Service is trying to rewrite the rules on who gets to Vote-by-Mail, and we urge postal workers to speak up before it’s too late.

On June 2, USPS published a proposed rule that would let the agency decide who can and can’t receive a mail ballot. The rule comes after a March 31 Executive Order which is designed to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote by mail.

Under this rule, USPS would build a new federal “Ballot Portal,” require states to hand over lists of every voter receiving a mail-in or absentee ballot, and then refuse to deliver any ballot it decides doesn’t match up. If a voter’s name gets dropped, misspelled, or lost in a database somewhere, that voter could be cut off from their ballot — through no fault of their own.

Our job is to deliver the mail to everyone, reliably and without discrimination. Deciding who gets to vote isn’t in our job description, and it shouldn’t be.

The people who will pay the price are the voters who depend on mail ballots most, Americans in rural communities, people with disabilities, voters who can’t easily get to the polls. For a lot of Americans, the mail is the only way they can vote at all.

As the ones who do the work to move election mail and ballots during elections, we know just how absurd this proposed rule is. The public comment period is open now through Thursday, July 2, at 5pm ET. Every comment matters, and personalized comments carry more weight than form letters, so tell USPS in your own words why this rule is wrong.

Use our form to submit a comment. It takes just a few minutes, and it could make the difference for millions of voters.