00:02key parts of president trump's mail-in voting order are staying on hold in 23 states for now
00:08but the legal battle is far from over a federal appeals court in boston has rejected the trump
00:14administration's request to let major pieces of the executive order take effect before the midterm
00:20elections the order would expand the federal government's role in mail-in voting it calls for
00:25the department of homeland security to help create state-by-state lists of eligible voters
00:30and for the postal service to verify mail-in voters using those lists the first circuit said
00:36the constitution leaves election administration largely to the states judges also warned the
00:42order could create an unprecedented level of federal involvement and so confusion this close
00:48to november but the ruling only applies to the 23 states that filed the lawsuit that leaves the
00:53country with a patchwork of rules after a different federal appeals court recently allowed the order
00:59to move forward elsewhere it's still unclear whether the postal service will try to implement the changes
01:05in states not covered by the injunction and the justice department has indicated it might ask the
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