Whistleblower: USPS mail ballot system has 'potentially catastrophic problems'
Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
A whistleblower has revealed that the U.S. Postal Service is rushing to implement a new mail ballot verification system that could disenfranchise millions of voters. The system, developed under a Trump executive order, is untested and has a design flaw: if one barcode fails in a batch of 10,000 ballots, the entire batch is rejected, causing delays. Senator Richard Blumenthal accuses the USPS of ignoring court orders and sabotaging mail voting.
The main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
- hackyhacky
> Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Yes. That's the point. The administration doesn't care about fixing whatever hypothetical mail ballot fraud may or may not exist; they are doing this to inject chaos into the election results, giving them cover to claim any result they want or even to just throw out the results entirely. Catastrophic problems are the means to that end.
- ck2
good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure
> For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate."
> Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal.
> Under the policy, if even one barcode on a single ballot in the batch doesn't scan properly or the information does not match, the entire batch would be rejected and returned to state election officials so the problem ballot could be addressed, and then the verification process would have to be started again.
- SoftTalker
> One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail
Sounds like BS. Or if it isn't, it's alarming.
Most voting should be in person, on election day. Absentee ballots for those who cannot do that, as we have done for decades. Early voting, unchecked mail-in voting, are all additional avenues for fraud or simply problems such as lost or damaged ballots or delayed processing.