A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions.
Voting rights groups are pointing judges to the allegations as fresh support for their warnings that the administration’s rushed new system could disrupt the delivery of thousands of ballots before November.
In filings Tuesday in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, pro-voting challengers cited the whistleblower’s claims that USPS has raced to build a new ballot verification system without meaningful testing and designed it so that a single barcode error could cause an entire batch with thousands ballots to be rejected.
The filings mark a new phase for allegations that were made public Tuesday by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
Rather than remaining the subject of congressional scrutiny and news reports, the whistleblower’s account is now being used by lawyers to bolster requests for courts to keep Trump’s mail voting rule blocked.
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