A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is warning that the agency’s efforts to develop systems to restrict mail ballot delivery for the November election have been rushed through testing, are unreliable, and could prevent millions of Americans from receiving mail ballots this November, Votebeat reports.
The anonymous whistleblower’s concerns were detailed in a 20-page complaint released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) office last Tuesday, which describes the Postal Service’s plans, which have been temporarily frozen by a court order, as “secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed.”
Problems with the system have become so widespread, the letter detailing the whistleblower’s complaint said, that a number of Postal Service officials have described development of a planned election mail ballot IT system as “a shit show.”
Blumenthal characterized the Postal Service efforts as a deliberate attempt by the Trump administration to suppress the vote and undermine the ability of Americans to vote by mail.
“This is not just incompetence, it is designed malfunction,” he said in a conference call with reporters about the whistleblower complaint. “And it is malign, designed malfunction in a way that clearly reveals a political purpose: depressing the vote.”
In a letter to the Postal Service, Blumenthal described the whistleblower complaint as “alarming” and asked the agency to explain its actions by Friday.
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