The U.S. Postal Service could “derail” midterm elections as it carries out the Trump administration’s plans to limit mail-in voting, according to a whistleblower complaint.
The anonymous whistleblower claims the U.S. Postal Service is ignoring a court ruling by continuing to work on implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order to tighten requirements for voting by mail ahead of the November elections.
Early voting for the midterms begins in some states this week.
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But the whistleblower reportedly told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the postal service is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement “untested” technology to comply with Trump’s directive, which is still being challenged in court. The online portal is designed to allow state election officials to submit the names of approved absentee voters, along with barcodes from their ballot envelopes.
The whistleblower claims that testing of the new system has been insufficient, according to a disclosure Blumenthal sent to the postmaster general on Monday. The disclosure was prepared by the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is representing the anonymous federal government official who has knowledge of the new system’s development.
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