Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms

[RAMROD 117,762]

The U.S. Postal Service could "derail" the midterm election if it continues rushing out "untested" technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, a newly released whistleblower report warns.

With voting by mail for the midterms set to officially start this week, key parts of the USPS plan for carrying out Trump's directives, including requirements for states to comply, remain blocked for now by a court order in the legal fight over the president's executive order.

Still, the mailing agency has been preparing for months to launch an online portal that would allow state election officials to submit absentee voters' names and ballot envelope barcodes required by the now-blocked rule.

Testing of that new system, however, has been insufficient, according to claims by a whistleblower, outlined in a disclosure that Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut submitted Monday to USPS.

One potential logistical hurdle, the whistleblower claimed, stems from an unusual "zero-percent failure policy" USPS has set for the process of verifying that the mail-in ballots states want to send out meet the requirements of its new rule.

"As designed, the process is entirely unforgiving. It could delay ballots by the thousands in repeated verification cycles — and thus prevent states from mailing enormous numbers of ballots," the disclosure said.

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/01/nx-s1-5950869/trump-mail-in-voting-usps

[SavetheEarthNow 214]

People know when the election is months and months in advance. It's not hard to make sure you have the day off to go vote in person. Make sure you arrange transportation if you're a senior or disabled. Book the day off work.  Everyone just needs to get off their butts and go down to the local voting booth and vote in person. 

 

[EART HL I NG 1,524]

23 minutes ago, SavetheEarthNow said:

People know when the election is months and months in advance. It's not hard to make sure you have the day off to go vote in person.

To bounce off this, your employer is legally obligated to give you the opportunity to vote, so if there's any problems there with PTO/ such they can't force you to skip voting and come in to work. So even if the lines are backed up: GO VOTE.

Edited 5 hours ago by EART HL I NG

[Morphine Prince 109,819]

That was always the plan 

[PartySick 173,794]

Democrats tend to be higher information voters than Republicans. Part of me hopes that they largely see these BS moves, see Trump f*cking with mail in ballots and registration rolls, and they respond accordingly so their votes are counted and Republicans ignore it until election day and end up getting screwed 'cause they show up unprepared.

[jimmytimestep 2,954]

55 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Democrats tend to be higher information voters than Republicans. Part of me hopes that they largely see these BS moves, see Trump f*cking with mail in ballots and registration rolls, and they respond accordingly so their votes are counted and Republicans ignore it until election day and end up getting screwed 'cause they show up unprepared.

This in a big way. I honestly think this political theater is going to hurt him more than help.

[27monster27 15,996]

4 hours ago, SavetheEarthNow said:

People know when the election is months and months in advance. It's not hard to make sure you have the day off to go vote in person. Make sure you arrange transportation if you're a senior or disabled. Book the day off work.  Everyone just needs to get off their butts and go down to the local voting booth and vote in person. 

 

 

3 hours ago, EART HL I NG said:

To bounce off this, your employer is legally obligated to give you the opportunity to vote, so if there's any problems there with PTO/ such they can't force you to skip voting and come in to work. So even if the lines are backed up: GO VOTE.

Always remember that if you are still in line after the closing time, stay in line. You are allowed to vote still as long as you are in line by closing.

[Ziggy 14,207]

2 hours ago, PartySick said:

Democrats tend to be higher information voters than Republicans. Part of me hopes that they largely see these BS moves, see Trump f*cking with mail in ballots and registration rolls, and they respond accordingly so their votes are counted and Republicans ignore it until election day and end up getting screwed 'cause they show up unprepared.

Yeah he doesn’t plan these things very well. He just blisters and then wonders why a thing breaks