Requires government-issued mail-in ballot envelopes to carry a Postal Service barcode that can track each ballot, along with Postal Service design standards and the Official Election Mail Logo.

• Bars governments from sending mail-in ballot envelopes unless they contain a Postal Service barcode that tracks each individual ballot.
• Requires envelopes to meet Postal Service design and machineable letter rules and to include the Official Election Mail Logo.
• Exempts Federal write-in absentee ballots under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
• Requires the Postmaster General to give election offices the information needed to create the barcodes by June 1 of each year.
• Applies to elections for Federal office held in 2026 and later years.

• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)

Government Operations and Politics