In the weeks before America's 2026 midterm elections, the Supreme Court drew a line between security and access, striking down the Trump administration's proposed restrictions on mail-in voting. The Court found that the burden these rules would place on millions of voters — the rural, the disabled, the overworked — outweighed the speculative fraud they were meant to prevent. It is a ruling that speaks not only to ballots, but to the enduring democratic question of who, in practice, gets to participate.