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.

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    Register as a Republican, and they won’t screw with you. Then vote Democrat, and completely screw up their plans.

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      They will claim massive voter fraud if there is a large discrepancy between registrations and votes.

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          Confirms his goal is illegitimizing the idea of free and fair elections. Sowing doubt by claiming every single election that has taken place and will take place is fraudulent. Planting the seeds for the next J6.

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        They will do that regardless. They always do. Hell, they already are doing it.

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        Don’t let that stop you, they will do it anyway. Why comply in advance, especially when you already know they are going to cry fraud?

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        They will claim voter fraud if your mail-in ballot is received on a day of the week that ends in “y”

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      Oregon has mail-in-voting, but also closed primaries so if I registered as Repiblican, I would only be able to vote in the Republican primary.

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        It’s not illegal, but in many states you can only vote in a party’s primary if you are registered as a member of that party.

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          Gotcha, so probably not a great idea. Local elections are really important too