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- 美国全国有色人种协进会认为美国邮政总局的规定违反了2021年的选票递送和解协议
- 美国邮政总局提议：若州政府未满足新要求，将拒绝递送选票
- 白宫为行政令辩护，称多项法院正在推进相关法律诉讼
华盛顿6月3日路透电 – 一家顶尖民权组织周三请求联邦法院阻止美国邮政总局提出的邮寄投票限制措施，称这些措施违反了一项要求优先处理邮寄选票的和解协议。
美国邮政总局上周提议一项规定，要求州政府提供选民名单并采用新的投票程序，邮政总局才会提供递送服务。若州政府不遵守规定，美国邮政总局将拒绝递送选票。
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这些规定源于美国总统唐纳德·特朗普3月签署的行政令，该命令旨在严格限制邮寄投票。特朗普此前曾在未提供证据的情况下称，邮寄投票容易引发欺诈。
在向哥伦比亚特区地区法院提交的动议中，民权组织美国全国有色人种协进会表示，美国邮政总局的这项规定将形成一个“直接违反其义务”的流程，该义务来自2021年的一项法律和解协议，该协议迫使美国邮政总局优先处理选票邮件，并采取“额外措施”确保选票及时递送。
该组织请求美国法官在6月22日前作出裁决，称邮政总局的这项计划可能“阻碍数百万合格选民领取他们应得的邮寄选票”。
“美国邮政总局曾多次承诺，通过优先及时递送邮寄选票，在民主进程中发挥自身作用，”美国全国有色人种协进会法律辩护基金的副法律顾问塞缪尔·斯皮塔尔告诉路透社。“而现在美国邮政总局却说，我们绝对不会递送任何不符合我们凭空制定的标准的选票，这不仅违反了和解协议，也违背了美国邮政总局在我国民主进程中的历史角色。”
美国邮政总局的一名代表拒绝置评。
白宫发言人阿比盖尔·杰克逊周一在该动议提交前发表声明称：“特朗普政府将继续依法推进总统特朗普当选时承诺的议程，其中包括保障美国选举的安全与保障……政府仍有信心，该行政令将在11月大选前得到执行，这也是该命令签署时的初衷。”
美国全国有色人种协进会2020年的诉讼最初是对新的邮政政策提出质疑，这些政策在新冠疫情最严重时期以及当年秋季总统大选前夕减缓了邮件递送速度。
埃米特·G·沙利文法官每日召开有时引发激烈争论的进度会议，监督邮件递送状况，使法院成为选举邮件的一种独立监督者。美国邮政总局采取了包括加快选票处理流程和每日扫描设施内选票在内的措施，以遵守沙利文的命令，后来这些措施成为选举季的标准操作流程。
2021年，美国邮政总局与美国全国有色人种协进会达成和解，同意在后续联邦选举前数月进行磋商，并维持“额外措施”以递送选票。
周三提交的动议称，该和解协议“与美国邮政总局自行选择递送哪些邮寄选票——以及不递送哪些——的规定不相容”。
特朗普的行政令已经面临法律挑战。波士顿一家联邦法院周二似乎准备叫停该命令，该案由20多个州和数个投票权组织提起。华盛顿的一名法官在另一桩案件中允许邮寄选票限制措施继续推进，称目前时机尚未成熟，不宜进行辩论。
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NAACP says US Postal Service mail-in voting plan violates settlement
2026-06-03T21:12:26.385Z / Reuters
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WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) – A leading civil rights group asked a federal court on Wednesday to block the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed restrictions on mail-in voting, arguing they violate a settlement that required expedited mail-in ballot handling.
The Postal Service last week proposed a rule requiring states to provide lists of voters and adopt new balloting procedures before the mail agency would make deliveries. If states did not comply, the Postal Service would refuse to deliver the ballots.
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The regulations stem from U.S. President Donald Trump’s March executive order that aimed to severely restrict mail-in voting, which he has said, without providing evidence, is prone to fraud.
In its motion before the District Court for the District of Columbia, rights group the NAACP said the USPS rule would create a process “that directly violates its obligations” under a 2021 legal settlement which forced USPS officials to prioritize ballot mail and take “extraordinary measures” to ensure its timely delivery.
The group asked a U.S. judge to issue a ruling by June 22, saying the postal plan could “prevent millions of eligible voters from receiving mail-in ballots to which they are entitled.”
“USPS has committed over and over to playing its part in democracy by prioritizing the timely delivery of mail-in ballots,” Samuel Spital, associate director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, told Reuters. “And now for USPS to say we affirmatively will not deliver a ballot at all because it doesn’t meet criteria that we invented out of whole cloth, not only violates the settlement agreement, but also the historical role of the USPS in our democracy.”
A representative for the Postal Service declined to comment.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement on Monday, before the motion was filed, that the “Trump administration will continue lawfully enacting the agenda President Trump was elected to enact – which includes the safety and security of American elections … The administration remains confident that the executive order will be implemented by the November election, which was always the intent when it was signed.”
The NAACP’s 2020 lawsuit originally challenged new postal policies that slowed mail delivery at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the run-up to that fall’s presidential election.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan held daily, and sometimes explosive, status conferences on the state of mail delivery, installing the court as a type of independent monitor of election mail. USPS implemented measures, including ballot-expediting procedures and daily facility ballot sweeps, to comply with Sullivan’s orders, and later made them standard operating procedure during election season.
In 2021, USPS and NAACP settled the case by agreeing to meet in the months before subsequent federal elections and maintaining the “extraordinary measures” for ballot delivery.
Wednesday’s motion says the settlement is “incompatible with a rule under which USPS chooses which mailed ballots to deliver – and which not to deliver.”
Trump’s executive order already faces legal challenges. A federal court in Boston appeared poised Tuesday to halt the order in a case brought by more than 20 states and a handful of voting rights groups. A judge in Washington in a separate case allowed the mail-ballot restrictions to proceed, saying the case was not yet ripe for arguments.
Reporting by David Shepardson and Jacob Bogage; Editing by Stephen Coates
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