USPS absentee-ballot rule faces litigation; Gallatin County reports June barcode glitch

Sep 11, 2026

Wake Up Missoula covered the new USPS rule on absentee-ballot lists and reported a June primary barcode glitch in Gallatin County that misaddressed return envelopes until corrected.

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The show summarized national legal challenges to a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would require states to produce lists of voters eligible for absentee ballots and said the administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review injunctions against the rule. Host Scott Ramp said the USPS final rule (published Aug. 27, as cited) could allow rejection of ballots in noncompliant envelopes and that two dozen states have sued to block the plan.

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