Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA whistleblower report warned Congress that new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail-in ballots under Donald Trump could disenfranchise millions of voters. The report alleges the Postal Service unlawfully moved forward with a rushed, chaotic ballot-tracking system despite federal court orders blocking the changes. USPS has eliminated standard and needed testing, thereby creating substantial risk of a “catastrophic failure” of the system that could “derail the midterm elections,” the whistleblower claims. Officials warned that the system's strict zero-percent failure policy could cause entire batches of thousands of ballots to be rejected over minor barcode errors or outdated voter rolls. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and legal advocates accused the administration of purposefully creating chaos to suppress mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. State election officials expressed deep concern over the last-minute rules as states begin preparing and mailing out ballots to voters. In fullUSPS could throw out millions of mail-in ballots under ‘s*** show’ Trump changes, whistleblower warnsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Whistleblower says USPS system Trump ordered for mail ballots could ‘derail’ midterms
Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA whistleblower report warned Congress that new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail-in ballots under Donald Trump could disenfranchise millions of voters. The report alleges the Postal Service unlawfully moved forward with a rushed, chaotic ballot-tracking system despite federal court orders blocking the changes. USPS has eliminated standard and needed testing, thereby creating substantial risk of a “catastrophic failure” of the system that could “derail the midterm elections,” the whistleblower claims. Officials warned that the system's strict zero-percent failure policy could cause entire batches of thousands of ballots to be rejected over minor barcode errors or outdated voter rolls. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and legal advocates accused the administration of purposefully creating chaos to suppress mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. State election officials expressed deep concern over the last-minute rules as states begin preparing and mailing out ballots to voters. In fullUSPS could throw out millions of mail-in ballots under ‘s*** show’ Trump changes, whistleblower warnsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
