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.
So that’s the plan - when Democratic states don’t comply to hand over their voter records, the postal service simply refuses to deliver their ballots from the Board of Elections. They can’t vote if they never get the ballot in the first place.
If there are discrepancies like addresses? That means my mail in ballot is going to be flagged, because my house is in address limbo (used to be an apartment but not anymore, and USPS has rejected packages being sent to me because I did not put “Apt 1” at the end of my address).
This is just going to disenfranchise those living between addresses and people caught in red tape living in apartment houses.
Truly a shit show. I’m voting in person from now until question marks.
There will be so many lawsuits over purposely caused issues and other crises by November, the court will cancel it all and maga will say it’s just like Zelenskyy did so it’s fine. Two months to see if wrong!
If we’re not facing an active, actual, missiles-in-the-air, tanks-on-the-border invasion and they try to pull that shit, then they’re even dumber than I thought.
I’m more worried they’ll invoke FDR saying he did it and was considered a generally great president
What they’re going to do is “disappear” or delay mailed ballots based on the party the voter is registered as and/or their district and which way that district tends to vote. Not all of them, that would be too obvious. Just enough of them to tilt the election to the repubs.
Don’t vote by mail at all if you have any other choice. If you do have a mail-in ballot, hand-deliver it to the election center (the place you would go to vote early) in your city or failing that, drop it in a ballot box, NOT a PO Box. If you’re forced to do it by mail, mail it as soon as you possibly can, then I’m pretty sure there’s a way you can call and verify it was received at the election center.
But again, don’t vote by mail if at all possible. And if possible, go vote early rather than on Election Day–god only knows what they’ve got planned for that day. If you can, provide rides for people who need them so they can vote early too.
“Shit show” is too charitable a term for something that’s being sabotaged on purpose. How the fuck is it that people are still giving the Trump regime any sort of benefit of the doubt?!
It’s just the racists and people too stupid to see through the bullshit left supporting him. Unfortunately, that seems to be 1/3 of us.
The states should state soliciting private delivery companies to deliver the ballots. It may be expensive but then send the bill to the federal gov afterwards.
Voting in person isn’t much better when those machines are owned by musk and other far right extremist oligarchs. I seriously doubt the results of the last election. I don’t think we can not vote by mail where I live anymore. I trust the mail in ballots more than these shadowy voting machines
described as a shit show
I feel ya buddy.
