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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 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.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
      44·
      1 day ago

      And just like EVERYTHING else he ever does, it doesn’t matter if it is blatantly illegal, against the constitution, violates everything, if we don’t enforce it IMMEDIATELY then it is already too late and we are stuck with the consequences.

      He shouldn’t even BE president right now. He is illegal and illegitimate on account of commiting treason and insurrection. But no one enforced the law or constitution and so here we are.

      And they are going to keep doing that until we say ENOUGH.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      29·
      1 day ago

      Even if they do deliver them, I’m sure the verification process will be incredibly slow in blue states, so that the ballots will arrive after voting day.

      • brookenium@feddit.onlineEnglish
        20·
        1 day ago

        This is the heart of the plan. Postal delays ensuring these votes won’t be counted. Nothing “illegal” about “incompetence”.

        • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
          12·
          1 day ago

          Meanwhile on Facebook posts about this, bots are pushing memes about how “The Democrats can’t cheat this time.”

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            15 hours ago

            I still have to laugh how conservative idiots believed and still believe that Big Tech is liberal and that the liberals in Big Tech actively worked to “cancel” them, shadowban, etc because they were conservatives…when were any of them ever cancelled for discussing smaller government or lower taxes?

            No, if any of them had posts deleted or accounts given a time out, it was because they were doing something else like hate speech, etc…that for some weird reason, seems to be something conservatives require. Strange.

            Anyway, for anyone to think that FB, Youtube, etc., are “liberal” means they are in complete delusion.