Mail Ballot Watch — Amanda for Colorado
Mail Ballot Watch

Mail voting is in court.

Updated September 2026

What's happening

The Trump administration is trying to change how mail voting works. Earlier this year, the President signed an executive order directing the Postal Service to verify who gets a mail ballot before delivering it. USPS followed up with a rule that makes that real. Under the rule, the Postal Service stops being your ballot's carrier and starts being its gatekeeper. If you're not on a federal list, your ballot doesn't get delivered.

States, voting rights groups, and party committees have all gone to court to stop it. Courts have blocked the rule more than once. Each time, the government has appealed. The fight keeps moving.

Your Colorado ballot is coming as planned.

Ballots go out the first week of October, and Colorado's mail voting system is working the way voters built it. Colorado's Attorney General is in court fighting the rule, and he's not alone.

Check your registration at GoVoteColorado.gov and sign up for BallotTrax to get a text or email when your ballot mails and when it's counted.

Where things stand right now
Updated September 6, 2026

A federal judge has blocked the USPS rule through the November election. The government has appealed to the Supreme Court. While the block holds, the Postal Service cannot enforce the new rule in any state, including Colorado. Your ballot is coming as planned.

What we're watching

The Massachusetts cases.

Two cases are in front of the same federal judge who has ruled against the executive order multiple times. Voting rights groups brought one. Twenty-four state attorneys general, including Colorado's Phil Weiser, brought the other. On September 4, she blocked the rule through the November election. The government has appealed to the Supreme Court.

The DC cases.

Two more challenges are working through federal court in Washington. These are a second front. If the Massachusetts block holds, they add depth. If it doesn't, they're the next chance.

The big unanswered question.

The Supreme Court hasn't ruled on whether the executive order or the USPS rule is actually legal. It said the earlier challenge was filed too soon. That question is still open, and every active case is pressing it.

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How we got here

BLOCKED ↑ A court order prevents implementation UNBLOCKED ↓ No court order is stopping implementation 2 court orders 1 court order JUN. 25 ORDER BLOCKED States' lawsuit wins AUG. 11 BLOCK GOES NATIONWIDE All 50 states covered AUG. 24 SUPREME COURT Lifts first block SEPT. 4 JUDGE BLOCKS IT Through the election JUL. 1 Second judge adds a block MID-JUL One block paused on appeal AUG. 21 USPS makes the rule final MAR. 31 EXECUTIVE ORDER Trump directs USPS AUG. 26 SECOND BLOCK WITHDRAWN ~36 hours unprotected
UNBLOCKED BLOCKED MAR. 31 Executive order signed JUN. 25 Judge blocks the order JUL. 1 Second judge adds a block MID-JUL One block paused on appeal AUG. 11 Block goes nationwide AUG. 21 USPS makes the rule final AUG. 24 Supreme Court lifts first block AUG. 26 Second block withdrawn ~36 hours unprotected SEPT. 4 Judge blocks it Through the election
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Elections belong to voters.

Coloradans built this system. Nobody in DC gets to override what they chose here.

No politician, no billionaire, no party gets to decide whether your vote counts.

Colorado has to hold. That takes all of us.

Amanda Gonzalez
Democratic Nominee for Colorado Secretary of State

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