(The Center Square) - Colorado is set to mail ballots to all of its registered voters for the November midterm elections as usual despite ongoing litigation surrounding a federal order and conflicting judicial rulings about the U.S. Postal Service.Â
The election preparations were continuing Thursday in Denver on the same day that a hearing was scheduled in the U.S. District Court in Boston on a preliminary injunction to block the new mail-in ballots rule.
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