A postal service employee claimed in a declaration filed to the First Circuit that the Postal Service is not ready to implement the rule regarding mail voting.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
Sources support the core of the claim: USPS told the court in a declaration that its portal was not yet operational and that it was not ready to implement the rule (citing the Monteith declaration, and a top official acknowledged the portal was unfinished).
What was said
… Please make it more difficult for us to do mail voting. Please make delays longer for mail voting. A state could do that. A Trump-aligned state could do that. And to date, none has. And there's a really good reason for that. One of the reasons for that is a postal service employee who signed a declaration, in the filing to the First Circuit claimed that they aren't ready to implement the rule. Even as the government claiming that they're being harmed every day, they couldn't start implementing the rule today because that portal they were supposedly building was not finished. We're learning some other facts as well. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. A Supreme Court filing states that on September 3 the Postal Service told the District Court the Portal was not yet operational, citing the Monteith Declaration.[2]
Supports. Reporting says a top Postal Service official acknowledged a key online portal was unfinished, and that the Postal Service acknowledged it was not ready to launch.[3][4]
Context. The First Circuit declined to lift the injunction blocking the USPS rule, so the appellate proceedings are real even though the cited declaration was filed in the district court.[1][5]
Context. Sources do not identify the declarant's employment status or confirm the declaration was filed to the First Circuit.[2]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 3 not rated
- 1US appeals court rejects Trump mail-in ballot restrictions ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2No. 26A305supremecourt.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 3Judge again halts USPS mail ballot plan as Trump administration seeks Supreme Court reliefkansascity.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Judge again halts Postal Service mail ballot plan as Trump ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5First Circuit rejects bid to lift injunction blocking USPS rule for mail-in votingcourthousenews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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