GOP state officials push to revive Trump's mail voting restrictions for 2028 election

GOP state officials appeal block on 2028 mail voting limits Some Republican state officials are reviving a bid for mail-in voting restrictions for the 2028 election by appealing a court order blocking the Postal Service from carrying out a revised ballot rule.

An election worker sorts mail-in ballots at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office in Doral for Florida's primary election in August.

Voting for this year's midterm elections just concluded, but Republican officials in a number of states are already looking to shape how votes are cast in 2028.

Twelve GOP state attorneys general are pushing to revive the president's bid for mail-in voting restrictions in time for the 2028 election.

On Thursday, they started the process of appealing a September order by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, one of the two judges who blocked the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out a plan released in response to an executive order by President Trump .

The Republican state attorneys general represent Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas. It's not clear, however, how long some of these states will continue this case, given that Democrats won up and down the ballot in the midterms. In Texas and Kansas, Democratic candidates are set to take control of their states' attorney general's offices in January.

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