Federal judge blocks parts of Trump’s executive order on voting by mail

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding mail-in voting. The judge ruled that the president lacked constitutional authority to impose these changes on states. Specifically, the ruling halts a plan to deny mail-in ballots to states refusing to share voter rolls and blocks a requirement for the postal service to use barcode tracking systems tied to US Citizenship and Immigration Services data.