With just days until the first ballots are set to be mailed to voters, a whistleblower inside the U.S. Postal Service is warning that a new delivery system could disrupt the handling of election mail and potentially put the midterm elections at risk. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Jacob Bogage of Reuters.

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WARM-UP QUESTIONS

1. What are the concerns raised by the whisteblower about the new delivery system and the midterm elections?
2. Who signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail-in voting and asks states to verify everyone who casts a ballot is a citizen (note: non-citizen voting is already illegal)?
3. Where does control over elections lie, under the Constitution? With the state governments or the federal government?
4. Why would this new delivery system make it so that the federal government would play a much larger role at the local and state level?
5. How did ballots used to be treated in mail processing facilities, according to Jacob Bogage?

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Do you think the new system restricting mail-in ballots is making voting and elections in America more...

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