Josh Shapiro joined a coalition of states Monday in opposing the administration’s emergency request to revive portions of an executive order requiring the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Homeland Security to take a larger role in verifying voter eligibility and handling mail ballots. The states called it an “unprecedented, legally indefensible voter-verification and ballot-interception program” that would force states to “redesign their ballot mail” just weeks before the midterm election. “That includes having already purchased thousands of envelopes for mail ballot voters. The order directs federal agencies to create state-by-state lists of people confirmed to be U.S. citizens and calls for new Postal Service rules governing mail ballots in federal elections.