An anonymous official with "direct knowledge" has come forward to warn about "potentially catastrophic problems" with the government's proposed takeover of the vote-by-mail system, according to a whistleblower complaint filed in federal court on Monday.
The official's concerns were documented on a docket in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by plaintiffs in one of many lawsuits challenging the rule that would have the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wrest control of mail-in voting away from the states.
The whistleblower claims the major problem with the Trump administration's sea change is with the "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set" of information technology systems.
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These systems are related to a so-called "Portal" envisioned by the USPS in which state and local election officials are expected to input each and every voter's information in order to receive a qualifying postal mail ballot and to "adhere to…data reporting standards."
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To hear the whistleblower tell it, the government has simultaneously rushed the "final rule" while spending little time on the systems needed to administer the proposed national mail-in voter database.
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