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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 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.
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.
As intended. This is not a well intended plan. The whole intention here is to disenfranchise voters because everyone knows, the move votes cast, the worse republicans do.
Not just that but any black hole you might find yourself in when two totally separate government systems don’t agree on one particular detail and neither agency wants to take ownership of the problem so it never gets fixed.