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True90% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026In March 2026, the President signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to create a national voter list using federal data sources.Said by CThe March 31, 2026 executive order did direct the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Social Security Administration, to compile a nationwide list of eligible voters for each state, so the core claim holds. The extracted claim omits the post's assertion that this was the first time in American history, which the sources neither confirm nor refute, and it is not graded here.True80% confidence7 sourcesSep 16, 2026Every state in the United States sends mail ballots.Said by CMultiple sources state that every U.S. state offers some form of mail or absentee voting, and ballots are mailed to voters in all states, either automatically in eight states and D.C. or on request elsewhere. The claim's literal wording is broader than 'automatic mailing', but under the standard reading that states send mail ballots to voters, the sources support it as of 2026-09-16.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Talwani's injunction was premature because the Postal Service rules had not been finalized and the case was not ripe.Said by CThe August 24, 2026 Supreme Court stay order on Talwani's injunction is reported as holding the challenge premature (unripe) because the Postal Service rule had not yet been finalized, which matches the claim. The claim's referent is the post's 'couple of weeks ago' ruling, and the September 14 Reuters order is a different, later ruling that the claim does not address.True92% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Judge Tawani issued a temporary restraining order for two weeks on the Thursday following the Supreme Court order.Said by CThe sources confirm that Judge Indira Talwani (the claim misspells the name as 'Tawani') issued a 14-day temporary restraining order on Thursday, August 27, 2026, the Thursday after the Supreme Court's Monday, August 24 order that lifted the earlier injunctions. The claim departs from the passage in no material way, and the post's 'next day' after Wednesday's filings matches the Thursday date.True60% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026By the end of the week of September 16, 2026, 20 states will have begun sending mail ballots out.Said by CAs of September 16, 2026, sources support the claim that about 20 states would have begun mailing ballots by the end of that week. NCSL, as reported by USA Today/Reuters on September 12, said 20 states send ballots within the next week or already have, and the September 9 Supreme Court filing says other states' initial mailing dates fall between September 4 and October 16, with the federal military/overseas deadline of September 19. No source gives an exact count for the end of that week, and the extraction's reading of "next week" as the week of September 16 is an inference from the post's date.True85% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026The executive order in question was issued five months prior to September 16, 2026.Said by BThe executive order at issue was signed March 31, 2026, per AP, BBC, Reuters, and the Federal Register citation in the sources. That is about five and a half months before September 16, 2026, so 'five months' is a fair rounding and the claim matches the post's own wording.True65% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026Judge Tawani found the executive order unconstitutional because it violated Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution regarding state authority to regulate elections.Sources on the June 25, 2026 ruling by Judge Indira Talwani (the claim's 'Tawani') support that she found the executive order unconstitutional on Elections Clause grounds, citing Article I, Section 4 and states' authority over elections. Other reports frame her core holding as ultra vires and separation-of-powers grounds, so the Article I, Section 4 ground is one of several rather than the sole reason. The claim departs from the passage in no material way.True88% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026The United States Postal Service has rejected mail ballot envelopes in at least one jurisdiction in Florida.Said by CThe USPS rejected Leon County, Florida's mail ballot envelope design on September 2, 2026, over a spacing defect, which matches the claim's 'at least one jurisdiction in Florida.' The rejection was later reversed on appeal and the county was granted temporary certification, but that does not change whether the rejection occurred as of 2026-09-16.True60% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026A 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.Said by CSources 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). They do not directly confirm that the declarant was a postal employee or that the filing went to the First Circuit, since the cited declaration was filed in the District Court; the claim departs from the passage only in that it attributes the filing to the First Circuit, which the sources do not confirm.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True72% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026People have been arrested for voter registrations on Skid Row.Federal authorities arrested James Brass on Skid Row-linked charges in September 2026 (before the 2026-09-16 post), and the DOJ and other reports describe Skid Row voter-registration-related arrests and charges. The claim is loosely worded: the Brass case centers on paying people to sign petitions with stolen voter identities, while registration-specific charges (a petition circulator who agreed to plead guilty to paying someone to register) are reported separately.True75% confidence7 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Department of Justice has a record of 0 wins and 23 losses in the voter data cases filed against states.Said by CMultiple recent sources report the DOJ's district court record in its voter roll suits as 0 wins and 23 losses, and none show a court ruling for the DOJ. Earlier trackers cite 27 dismissals, a figure that conflicts with the 23 count, but the more recent reports consistently use 23.True85% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Department of Justice has filed 31 cases against 30 states and the District of Columbia regarding voter data.Said by CThe claim matches the extracted passage, which says 31 cases against 30 states and DC as of the September 2026 post. Multiple sources, including the AP and a University of Wisconsin tracker, report the same count of 31 lawsuits against 30 states plus Washington, D.C.

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