Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 25 states, has secured a temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, temporarily blocking a new rule by the U.S. Postal Service that would have imposed burdensome requirements on vote-by-mail systems ahead of the November 3rd midterm elections.  The order blocks the Postal Service from requiring states to obtain the federal government’s approval of ballot and return-envelope designs, register for a new Postal Service portal for tracking voter information, input information for each of their state’s voters into the portal and comply with other provisions. In granting the TRO, the court found that compliance with the rule before the November elections is “practically impossible,” noting that states do not have the time to redesign and produce new ballots, update state-administered election systems, train state and local election officials and upload a massive set of voter information to a new federal portal. The court concluded that states face irreparable harm because many had already ordered their ballots, with some states required by state law to begin sending them to voters as early as next week.