A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) official has alleged that the agency rushed development of ballot-mail IT systems and bypassed normal testing procedures ahead of the November midterm elections.
In an Aug. 31 letter to Postmaster General and CEO David Steiner, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., disclosed the allegations and urged USPS to abandon the plan outlined by the whistleblower.
According to Blumenthal’s letter, the USPS official alleged that efforts to develop and deploy the Federal Ballot Mail Portal and related IT systems have been “rushed, risky, and haphazard” because agency leadership demanded an “impossible timeframe.”
“In an effort to meet impossible deadlines, USPS has eliminated standard and needed testing, thereby creating substantial risk of a ‘catastrophic failure’ of the system that could ‘derail the midterm elections,’” the letter reads.
The Federal Ballot Mail Portal is part of USPS’s implementation of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order on election integrity, which directed the agency to take additional steps related to mail-in ballots and establish agreements with states on ballot receipt deadlines.
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