A Postal Service official says the agency kept building President Trump's mail-ballot restrictions while a federal court order said stop — and built them so badly that millions of Americans may never get their ballots.
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal released the official's 20-page complaint on Tuesday, September 1. The whistleblower — unnamed, filing through the legal group Whistleblower Aid — calls the Postal Service's work "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed" and warns of "potentially catastrophic problems" once ballots start moving. Staff on the project put it more plainly, the complaint says: "a shit show."
Trump's March executive order directs every state to hand the Postal Service a list of its absentee voters. Postal workers deliver mail ballots only to the people on those lists. A state that refuses loses the mail: its officials are barred from using the Postal Service to send ballots at all. Postal crews built the portal that holds the lists in roughly three months — work the whistleblower says normally takes more than a year — and cut testing to hit an internal deadline of September 1.
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