Whistleblower warns Postal Service's new mail ballot system has "potentially catastrophic problems"
- On Tuesday, an anonymous whistleblower warned that the U.S. Postal Service is launching an untested online portal for mail-in ballots, risking "potentially catastrophic problems" for the midterm elections.
- President Donald Trump ordered the agency to implement the verification system via executive order, prompting Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal to release the whistleblower's disclosure on Monday.
- A "zero-percent failure policy" requires perfect barcode scans; a single error could cause USPS to reject tens of thousands of legitimate ballots, the whistleblower alleged.
- While U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani previously issued a restraining order, the Supreme Court overruled her block last week, leaving implementation status uncertain for the midterms.
- Blumenthal urged Postmaster General David Steiner to "abandon this ill-conceived, unconscionable plan," warning that rushed development could disenfranchise millions of Americans relying on mail-in voting.
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The U.S. Postal Service rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, and defied a court order to stop work on the system, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint published Tuesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The unnamed whistleblower predicted the result could […]
We need to get the word out: Do NOT use the USPS to vote in the midterms
This does not mean you can’t vote by mail. My understanding is that states that use vote by mail, either as the standard option as in Colorado and several other states, or as an alternative, whether for absentee voting or just in general, have drop boxes at polling places and elsewhere that allow mailed ballots […] The post We need to get the word out: Do NOT use the USPS to vote in the midterms appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.
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