Summary
A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower says the agency rushed to build a new ballot-checking system that might reject many mail ballots. A senator is demanding answers about whether USPS broke court orders by building this system after President Trump signed an executive order related to checking voter eligibility.Key Facts
- A USPS whistleblower claims the agency built a new ballot system in weeks instead of the usual many months.
- The system is based on a Trump executive order to list confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote and to reject ballots from those not on state lists.
- Senator Richard Blumenthal asked USPS for details and records about the system and whether court orders were broken.
- The system checks ballot barcodes against voter information from states and could reject entire batches if one barcode is wrong.
- USPS traditionally only gave advice on election mail but never rejected ballots before.
- The Postal Service and the White House have not responded to requests for comment.
- There is an ongoing legal battle with 23 states and D.C. suing to block the executive order, with mixed court rulings so far.
- The situation raises concerns about USPS’s ability to run this new system correctly and on time before elections.
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