California warns Supreme Court of mail-ballot chaos Play

California's lawyers warned the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that allowing the U.S. Postal Service to enforce new rules on mail-in ballots will cause chaos. The state says it could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters in places where voters prefer to mail in their ballots.

Mail ballots in California will go out in the next week or so. The ballots and envelopes are already being printed, and they don't have the labels that the Postal Service would require. California Wednesday joined 22 other states to argue that President Donald Trump's new rules are impossible to comply with on short notice. Putting the Postal Service in charge of sorting out ballots and searching for illegal voters that don't exist would mean millions of voters would be unable to cast their ballots by mail.

More than two-thirds of Southern California voters send in their ballots via mail. The new rules do not apply to ballots that are hand-carried to vote drop-off boxes, which are generally open in California 10 days before the election. The president has not moved against those — not yet.