By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne
Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail-in ballots is unlikely to stop his attacks on voting by mail, voting-rights advocates and election officials said on Tuesday, though they are more confident now those efforts will not disrupt November’s midterm elections.
“I was more scared a year ago than I am now,” said Hannah Fried, executive director of All Voting Is Local, a voting-rights advocacy group, after the Supreme Court on Monday blocked Trump’s attempt to impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots that election officials feared would cause chaos in the run-up to the midterms.
But, she still expected Trump to falsely claim that bail-in ballots were vulnerable to widespread fraud, an assertion that election officials and the courts have repeatedly found lacks evidence.
In a Truth Social post on Tuesday lashing out at the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said the U.S. had a “totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-in voting ‘disaster.'”
Trump’s proposed new regulation would have required states to provide voter-specific data and use Postal Service-approved mail-ballot envelopes that would be tracked using barcodes. The Postal Service could then refuse to send out ballots that did not comply with the new standards or were associated with voters who do not appear on the lists.
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