New Delhi, June 26 -- BOSTON - In Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - the four states that together determined the last two presidential contests - voters who rely on absentee ballots will not face a new federal approval list before their next envelope reaches the mail. A federal court in Boston ruled Thursday that no such list can lawfully exist, delivering the sharpest judicial rebuke yet of the Trump administration's effort to insert the executive branch into the machinery of American elections.

a directive to build a federally controlled registry of adult U.S. citizens, and a requirement that the Postal Service deliver mail ballots only to voters whose names appeared on that registry. The injunction covers 23 states and t...