The U.S. Postal Service is barreling ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s order to wield federal control over November's election in violation of court orders, according to a new whistleblower report.
The new report, which was put together by the USPS whistleblower's lawyers and released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), comes amidst multiple court challenges to the president's proposal to require states to submit lists of their mail-in voters or face penalties, reported CNN.
"[An] unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public," CNN reported. "Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says."
Multiple USPS employees described the development process as a "s--- show" as the agency raced toward a Sept. 1 launch, according to the whistleblower, and agency leadership "discarded all best practices" in the rush, prompting questions about "whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug."
"The main takeaway for me," Blumenthal said, "is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans. One-third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the USPS puts all of their votes at risk.”
The system stems from an executive order Trump signed in March granting USPS an ...
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