Millions of Americans could be at risk of not getting their mail-in ballots on time, or at all, if a new U.S. Postal Service system moves forward as planned.
A new report published in The New York Times from a USPS whistleblower says the agency has been rushing to implement a “secretive, rushed” new digital system tied to President Trump’s effort to impose new federal requirements on mail voting.
All of this as mail-in voting for the midterms is beginning right now, and we’re just two months away from Election Day.
The whistleblower alleges the system was being developed in a “risky and haphazard” way and warns of a potentially “catastrophic failure.” One particularly alarming concern: the system could reject tens of thousands of ballots in a bulk mailing if just one of the ballots in the bulk fails to scan properly.
Here’s where this all gets really complicated: The Supreme Court recently allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its mail-voting plan, but not because the justices ruled the policy itself was legal. The court essentially said the states had challenged it too early.
Then USPS finalized the rules.
That changed the legal landscape. States went back to court, and a federal judge temporarily blocked key provisions, saying the challenge was now ripe because the Postal Service had actually published the policy the states were fighting.
So, in plain English: the Supreme Court said, you’re challenging this too soon. USPS then finalized the rules, and...
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