Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration's rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government.

The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.

Steiner confirmed he would follow the rule after Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters asked “If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal rule?”

“Under our proposed regulation, no,” Steiner said, according to the New York Times. "We would tell the state that we need the manifest."

Steiner also agreed that USPS is not responsible for administering elections but indicated the rule was a procedural step for ensuring ballots are only sent to eligible voters.

“I would think that states would want the information to ensure that the ballots that they think they’re sending out are the ballots that are actually getting sent out," he said.

Democrats have claimed that the president's executive order is an unconstitutional interference in state power to regulate elections and accused the president of trying to "rewrite election rules for his own perceived partisan advantage."

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