RINO Raffensperger and Five Other Republican Secretaries of State Urges Supreme Court to Delay Trump-Backed USPS Ballot Rule Until After 2026 Midterms

Brad Raffensperger, State of Georgia, and his wife Tricia Raffensperger during opening night reception for the Knight Foundation’s Informed, Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age, held at The Biltmore Hotel. (Photo by Patrick Farrell)

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and five other Republican secretaries of state have signed onto an emergency Supreme Court brief asking the justices to make sure a new U.S. Postal Service mail-ballot rule does not govern the November 3, 2026 election.

The filing is styled as a brief of amici curiae “in support of neither party.” The bottom line is not neither-party at all. The signers want the November midterms run under the same mail-ballot system that was in place before President Trump’s election-integrity order and the Postal Service’s final rule.

The six current Secretaries of State listed in the filing are:

Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of Georgia Michael Adams, Secretary of State of Kentucky Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Monae Johnson, Secretary of State of South Dakota David Scanlan, Secretary of State of New Hampshire Scott Schwab, Secretary of State of Kansas

Utah Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, who serves as the state’s chief election official, also joined the brief.

In total, the coalition includes 38 current and former state and local election officials from 10 states, along with the Missouri Association of County Clerks and Election Authorities and the Civic Right Action Fund. The list is mostly Republicans.

The officials specifically decline to take a position on whether the Postal Service possesses the legal authority to issue the rule or whether the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act or the Constitution’s Elections Clause.

Instead, they argue that the practical requirements cannot be implemented responsibly before November.

“Attempting to implement the Rule now will almost certainly lead to mistakes, delays, and confusion for both voters and election officials,” the brief states.

The election officials argue that the administrative election cycle began long before Election Day.

North Carolina mailed its first ballots on September 4, while federal law requires states to transmit ballots to military and overseas voters by September 19.

By the time the rule was finalized in August, the brief says election offices had already established budgets and staffing levels, ordered ballot envelopes, prepared procedures and begun training workers.

This is the same Raffensperger that The Gateway Pundit has covered for years over Georgia’s 2020 mess and, more recently, over his office’s fight with the Justice Department over complete voter-roll data.

Now he is on a brief telling the Supreme Court that Trump’s mail-ballot safeguards are too late for 2026.

Just in: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and a bipartisan group of current and former election officials are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block a new USPS ballot-mail rule from taking effect for the 2026 midterms.

The amicus brief includes 38 current and former…

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) September 9, 2026

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