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Mehek Cooke, CEO of American Frontier Strategies, told Kudlow that 24 states and Washington, D.C., are suing to block new United States Postal Service (USPS) mail-in voting rules and urged Congress to bankroll “election integrity.” That sentence sounds like politics, and it is, but it also describes a legal and funding pathway that can change how ballots are handled and who gets paid to handle them. Investors should notice because rules about mail voting ripple into federal budgets, vendor revenue streams, and the broader political argument over election legitimacy.