There’s been a breakthrough in the weeks-long standoff over the availability of voter registration materials in Houston post offices with just weeks to go before the election.
Word came in a letter Friday to two Houston Democrats from the U.S. Postal Service government relations official in Washington, clarifying that postmasters are now explicitly authorized to allow voter registration and vote-by-mail applications to be on hand in post office lobbies as long as there is room to stash them.