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Whistleblower warns about USPS plan for Trump mail voting order : NPR
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Key Points:
- A whistleblower report warns that the U.S. Postal Service's rushed rollout of untested technology, part of President Trump's efforts to restrict mail-in voting, could disrupt the upcoming midterm election.
- The USPS has been developing an online portal for state election officials to submit absentee voter information, but testing has been insufficient, raising concerns about potential failures that could delay or prevent ballot delivery.
- The whistleblower highlights a problematic "zero-percent failure policy" for verifying ballots, which could cause massive delays in mailing ballots and hinder voter participation.
- Legal challenges have blocked key parts of the USPS plan, with a federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order citing USPS's lack of authority over mail-in voting, and the Trump administration appealing the decision.
- Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal criticized the USPS plan as designed to fail and urged the Postmaster General to abandon it to protect Americans' voting rights.
