Trump-Ordered Mail Voting System is 'Plagued with Errors,' Whistleblower Claims
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is set to launch a hastily built and error-ridden computer system that could jeopardize the traditional mail voting process relied upon by one-third of all voters, according to a whistleblower's statement released Tuesday by Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal. This effort is part of the implementation of President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting, which has been temporarily halted by a federal judge. The administration is appealing the ruling, and the directive could eventually return to the U.S. Supreme Court. The unidentified whistleblower claims that USPS has been rushing to build a complex system that would normally take a year or more in just three months, sometimes defying the judge's orders that halted the work. The goal is to have it ready for use in the midterm elections in November. The revelation states that, due to the new procedures, a single scanning error in a batch of tens of thousands of ballot envelopes could prevent any of them from reaching voters. It details a system that election officials have already warned could not be implemented before the first mail ballots begin to be sent out on Friday in North Carolina.
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