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Yesterday evening’s Supreme Court ruling was the latest development in a broader effort to diminish the credibility of mail-in voting, undermine the dedicated work of the nation’s 200,000 active city letter carriers, and suppress Americans’ access to the ballot.

 

States administer elections. Neither the executive branch nor the Postal Service has the authority to regulate elections, rewrite election laws, or determine who is eligible to vote by mail. The administration’s executive order gives the USPS new responsibilities far outside its standard operations and constitutionally mandated authority.

 

Instances of mail-in voter fraud are exceedingly rare, and any insinuation that voting by mail is not safe and secure is severely misguided. Letter carriers have securely delivered ballots for decades, and there is no evidence that the existing system requires substantial changes.

 

We help our democracy work by delivering ballots to tens of millions of Americans so that they can participate in our elections. We deliver those ballots with the same reliability and security with which we deliver more than 360 million pieces of mail and packages every day across the country. Mail-in voting makes elections accessible for seniors, rural residents, working families, military personnel, and Americans with disabilities.