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Richard Blumenthal releases whistleblower report warning of potential flaws in new U.S. Postal Service mail voting system

Senator Richard Blumenthal released a whistleblower report on Tuesday regarding the U.S. Postal Service's rapid development of a new mail voting system. The report warns that the Postal Service is scrambling to build a complex online portal and supporting IT systems in three months that would typically take a year or more to complete.

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Under the administration's executive order, states must upload verified voter lists to the Federal Ballot Mail Portal and ensure ballots include trackable barcodes. The whistleblower contends that the hurried construction has resulted in an untested system that may face significant operating problems. A key concern is the "zero percent" rule, which states that a single scanning error in a batch of tens of thousands of ballots could cause the entire batch to be rejected. While the administration has called these measures commonsense, the report suggests the system's sloppy development poses a risk of disenfranchising millions of voters. The system is currently under a temporary restraining order, allowing the Postal Service to continue work on the portal without forcing states to use it immediately.

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