A US Postal Service whistleblower has warned that millions of Americans could be prevented from receiving mail ballots ahead of November's midterm elections because of a rushed new system ordered by President Donald Trump and due for launch on Tuesday.
The anonymous federal official alleges that the agency has continued developing the system despite court orders blocking key parts of Trump's effort to impose new federal controls on voting by mail.
The disclosure, released Tuesday by Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal, describes the project as "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed" and warns that insufficient testing could lead to "catastrophic failure."
Under the proposed system, state election authorities would upload lists of mail voters and identifying barcodes to a new federal portal.
Postal workers would then check samples from large batches of outgoing ballots against that information before accepting them for delivery.
The whistleblower alleges USPS has adopted a "zero-percent failure policy" under which an entire batch could be rejected if even one sampled barcode fails to scan or match the federal system.
That could mean that one problematic ballot in a mailing of 10,000 prevents the other 9,999 from being sent until the discrepancy is resolved and the batch checked again.
"The apparently sloppy and rushed manner in which the federal ballot mail portal and supporting IT systems are being built poses significant risk," said the official, who...
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