A federal appeals court ruled on Saturday that the Trump administration cannot put into effect an executive order to create lists of eligible voters and prevent the postal service from delivering them to people who do not appear on the lists. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
July 25 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration cannot implement tighter rules for mail-in voting in the mid-term elections this November.
The ruling, handed down by the First U.S. Circuit of Appeals on Saturday, will prevent his administration from creating a list of eligible voters and from requiring the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots to people who are not on the list, The Hill and Bloomberg News reported.
The three-judge panel rejected the administration's appeal of lower court rulings in late June and early July that an executive order issued in April to expand the federal government's role in managing elections could not be put into effect.
The April 1 executive order was condemned by critics at the time as an attempt by President Donald Trump and the administration to interfere with the mid-term elections, and led to 23 states and the District of Columbia to file suit to stop it.
