Donald Trump's proposed plan would have required states to provide lists of voters' names approved to receive mail ballots.
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IHIP NewsSep 20, 2026
The claim that Trump's plan would have required states to provide lists of voters approved to receive mail ballots is supported by multiple sources, including NYT, The Hill, Bloomberg, and ProPublica, which all describe the state voter-list requirement.
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… So this was a huge victory for the American people and the people doing the hard work, taking these cases to the Supreme Court, the lawyers. Kudos to them. They deserve credit. All right, and here's some tidbits from this: What Trump wants. Trump's plan would have required states to provide lists of voters' names approved to receive mail ballots, require specific barcodes on envelopes, which would require a rushed redesign of ballots ahead of elections, and use USPS to screen ballot envelopes after they are submitted. …
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Supports. The New York Times reports that the new rules 'would have required states to submit lists of voters approved to receive mail ballots,' with the Postal Service delivering ballots only to voters on those lists.[1]
Supports. The Hill reports that the final Postal Service plan 'would require states to upload voter lists' for mail ballots to be sent.[2]
Supports. Bloomberg reports that states 'must then send rosters of eligible voters to the Postal Service' in order to have ballots sent out by mail under the Trump order.[3]
Supports. ProPublica reports that the directive 'required states to provide the Postal Service with lists of eligible mail voters,' which workers would match against ballots.[4]
Context. The requirement was subsequently blocked by courts, including a Supreme Court ruling, and the Detroit News describes the set-aside Postal Service rule as one that would have required states to provide lists of voters who qualified for mail ballots. This later blocking does not alter the claim's 'would have required' framing as of the posting date.[1][5]
Context. The claim matches the passage faithfully: the post states the same requirement in the same terms, so no extraction addition is present.
Sources
5 sources: 3 tier 2, 1 tier 1, 1 not rated
- 1Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Plan to ...nytimes.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 2Second judge freezes Trump mail ballot plan as Supreme Court ...thehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 3Trump-aligned mail ballot rules readied for high court decisionbloomberg.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Votingpropublica.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5Trump has railed against mail-in voting. Millions are still doing itdetroitnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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