The board's solicitor summarized litigation over proposed U.S. Postal Service rules and said the Supreme Court ruled those proposed USPS changes cannot take effect for the fall election; staff reiterated that drop boxes remain the most direct method to return ballots before the 8 p.m. deadline.

A presenter said a presidential March executive order directing the Postal Service to create a mail-in absentee participation list would let the agency verify who may receive and cast ballots by mail, a change the presenter called an unconstitutional subversion of the Postal Service27s duty.

A lawmaker told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that the U.S. Postal Service posted $9.7 billion in controllable losses over five years and urged Congress and the Service to pursue transparent reforms including pension investment, revised retirement calculations and new borrowing authority.