Supreme Court Blocks USPS Voter Checks. Riverside’s Rolls Still Haven’t Been Cleaned
The battle over USPS ballots took a significant turn today. The Supreme Court left in place a lower-court order blocking the Trump administration’s USPS mail-ballot rule. States will not have to submit lists of mail voters to a federal portal or use matching barcodes that would have let the Postal Service flag or refuse non-compliant ballots before the midterms in November.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling against using USPS data to help validate voter records raises a serious question for California: if the voter rolls are wrong, who catches the error before ballots go out?
In Riverside County, that question is not theoretical. In 2024, the Registrar of Voters contracted with Experian to audit the rolls, yet serious concerns remain about outdated, mismatched, or questionable registrations still included in the system.
Mail ballots depend on accurate voter rolls before they ever get mailed to voters.
California is trusting a fragile system
California mails ballots to all registered voters. That means if the rolls contain people who have moved, died, registered incorrectly, or are otherwise ineligible, those ballots are still sent out.
The state is then relying heavily on the hope that whoever receives a fraudulent ballot does the honest thing. California legislators wrote the laws to rely on people's honesty not to sign someone else's ballot and cast a vote on any ballots that show up at their door.
That is not election security. That is a gamble. That's like never locking your doors. What are the odds someone will steal your car? Not much, but we do it regardless TO. BE. SAFE.
The Experian audit exposed the problem with minimal changes made.
Voter rolls are required to be accurate. Using Experian data is one of several methods the county may use to verify voter roll accuracy and remedy suspect registrants. But residents and election integrity advocates still report records that raise red flags.
The issue is simple: an audit only matters if it leads to real corrections.
If questionable names or addresses remain active, then every election becomes more vulnerable before voting even begins. The Registrar's office hides behind the bare minimum legal standard while ignoring critical security flaws. Rather than cross-referencing voter rolls with DMV and USPS records to flag relocated or suspect registrants, they claim they addressed the SOS list maintenance messages daily. If that worked, then why did Experian identify over 200,000 errors? Instead, the ROV will keep sending out ballots, charging cities for the cost of the election mailings, and hope that no one votes the extra 200,000 ballots they send out.
Election systems need safeguards before ballots are mailed, returned, and counted.
This is what federal reform tried to prevent
That honor system is exactly what the Trump administration’s USPS rule and the SAVE America Act were designed to tighten: proof of citizenship at registration, better list maintenance, and a way to stop ballots from landing at vacant or outdated addresses.
Those measures have been blocked, at least for the midterms this November.
Riverside County deserves answers
Our lawsuit against the Riverside County Registrar of Voters is about accountability. We are asking for transparency, clean records, and a system voters can trust.
Accountability often starts with citizens addressing the ROV and Board of Supervisors in public. When that fails, citizens are forced to revert to the courts.
The Election Accountability Project has sued the Riverside County Registrar of Voters to preserve 2024 and 2025 election records and force answers on unexplained ballot-accounting gaps. Clean rolls and a complete paper trail are the minimum. Help us finish that work before the next round of ballots goes out.
Please support the Election Accountability Project and our legal fight against the ROV. Share this message, stay engaged, and help us demand voter rolls that are accurate before ballots are mailed.
Clean voter rolls are not partisan.
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