The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.
The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.
The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.
This is why I hand-delivered mine to a ballot drop-box instead of mailing it. I do not fucking trust the USPS to handle my election materials anymore.
Unfortunately that is the point. Even if they don’t do anything, they have already undermined the public trust which will probably already disenfranchise many voters.
I haven’t had faith in the USPS’s handling of election materials since orangeboi appointed DeJoy as postmaster general right before the 2020 election, with the express purpose of trying to fuck with the election. There’s a new postmaster general (David Steiner), and by all accounts he’s even worse than DeJoy.
They’re talking about the mailing out of the ballots. You won’t get a ballot to fill out unless you live in a state where you can print your own.