Whistleblower: USPS secretly rushing new requirements for mail-in voting

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.

President Trump's plan to screen voters' mailed ballots is faulty and could lead to huge issues, a U.S. Postal Service whistleblower warns. CBS News election law expert and political contributor David Becker weighs in.

The anonymous whistleblower described the Postal Service’s work on systems as “secretive, rushed, chaotic"

A lawyer for an anonymous whistleblower says Postal Service plans for an unusual verification rule, combined with a hastily built online system, could delay mail ballots from reaching eligible voters.

With just days until the first ballots are set to be mailed to voters, a whistleblower inside the U.S. Postal Service is warning that a new delivery system could disrupt the handling of election mail and potentially put the midterm elections at risk. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Jacob Bogage of Reuters.

An anonymous whistleblower disclosure alleging that the Postal Service rushed a new ballot-verification system drew attention from Democrats on Tuesday, hours before a key deadline in the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot executive order legal battle. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the complaint as the adm

Just two months before the midterm elections, USPS is preparing to launch an untested mail-in ballot verifcation system that puts eligible voters in jeopardy

Blumenthal raised concerns about "zero percent failure rate" which, according to the whistleblower, could see whole batches of ballots being rejected.

The whistleblower contends the Postal Service has been scrambling to try to build a complex system that would normally take a year or more in only three months.

Nevada Secretary of State: Democratic election officials are 'not going to relent' as Trump works to restrict mail-in ballots  CNN

Whistleblower Raises Alarming Possibility About Mail Ballots  New York Magazine

Whistleblower Warns USPS’s Mail-in Ballot Rule Could Impact ‘Millions’ Of Votes—What To Know Before Midterms  Forbes

Postal Service illegally defied court orders with ‘secretive’ and ‘rushed’ process to implement new rules, anonymous official says

A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots. The big picture: The whistleblower says the Postal Service built the system in weeks, not the nine months to a year normally needed for a project of this

US senator says that project, a key part of Trump’s voting restrictions, is ‘perilously rushed and potentially unlawful’ A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little, that a single scanning glitch could see entire batche

A whistleblower has sounded the alarm over the U.S. Postal Service secretly implementing new mail-voting policies that could disrupt the midterms.

Whistleblower warns Trump mail ballot plan could be 'catastrophic'  USA Today

A U.S. Postal Service official has accused the agency of defying court orders as it rushes to implement the Trump administration’s mail-in voting restrictions. The allegations were made public Tuesday morning by way of a letter from Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal to Postmaster General David Steiner. Citing the

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 - A whistleblower told Congress that the U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting that could result in thousands of legitimate ballots being discarded.

An anonymous federal official says the internal process to carry out President Trump’s executive order is untested and could ‘derail’ the midterm elections.

An executive order from Trump, which is stymied in the courts, required the Postal Service to rapidly build a complex system to vet mail ballots.

WSJ Opinion: Mail Ballots, the USPS, and the Supreme Court / Meta's Settlement on Youth Mental Health  WSJ

'This agreement could simply codify much of the 'safety theater' that Meta has been doing in recent years,' says whistleblower Arturo Bejar, a former Meta safety engineer