The U.S. Postal Service is rushing to implement President Trump's new rules for mail ballots — despite a court order barring it from doing so — using "an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" that could cause "catastrophic problems" in the November election, according to an agency whistleblower.
"Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all," the unidentified whistleblower alleged in a statement published Tuesday by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Among other issues, the whistleblower alleged that the Postal Service's new Federal Ballot Mail Portal for verifying mail ballots — which Trump demanded in a March executive order and California and other states are challenging in court — has been built in a "slapdash" manner and is "fundamentally flawed." Thousands of ballots would be invalidated whenever a single ballot's newly designed Postal Service barcode isn't properly read, the whistleblower said.
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"As presently designed, if even one bar code on one single ballot in a bulk-mailing of 10,000 ballots fails to properly scan during the verification process, the entire batch is rejected and sent back to the state — effectively stopping the ballots from being mailed to voters," read the whistleblower's statement, which the group Whistleblower Aid helped draft.
The Postal Service did not respond to a...
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