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A whistleblower from the US Postal Service says the agency is plowing ahead with President Trump's plan to tighten control over mail voting—even after a federal judge ordered it stopped. In a report released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the official describes a "secretive, rushed" effort to roll out a new digital ballot-tracking system that was supposed to be finished by Tuesday, despite a court finding it likely exceeded the agency's authority. It would normally take a year or more to build such a complex system, but USPS' effort has taken just three months and risks "catastrophic failure" in the mail ballot system, the report reads, per the AP and New York Times.
The complaint warns the setup is so brittle it could toss out entire batches of ballots if a single barcode fails to properly scan, in keeping with a "zero-percent failure policy." That leaves "potentially millions" of mail votes at risk ahead of the midterms, according to the report. Under new USPS policy, mail ballots will only be sent in states that submit a list of voters and envelope barcodes through its portal, in line with President Trump's March executive order. A federal judge threw a wrench in that plan on Thursday, though the whistleblower claims USPS is pushing ahead regardless. Blumenthal accuses the Postal Service of designing a system "that is intended to fail" to disenfranchise voters, per NPR.
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