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Norma Torres reacts to whistleblower report regarding the administration's new mail-in voting requirements

California Congresswoman Norma Torres responded to a whistleblower report regarding the administration's plans to use the U.S. Postal Service to limit mail voting. The report indicates that the U.S. Postal Service is developing a rushed, error-prone computer system to implement an executive order from President Trump. This order requires states to submit verified voter lists to an online portal and mandates that ballot envelopes include specific barcodes and logos. The administration stated these measures are necessary to combat fraud. However, the whistleblower claims the system was built in only three months, bypassing standard testing procedures. The report warns that a single scanning error in a batch of tens of thousands of ballots could cause the entire batch to be discarded. Furthermore, the administration's new rules require the Postal Service to individually scan every outbound ballot, a process that could take hundreds of thousands of hours in some states. While a federal judge initially halted the implementation, the Supreme Court recently cleared the way for the order, though a subsequent 14-day restraining order was issued by a judge in Boston. If the order is fully implemented, states that cannot meet the requirements in time may be unable to offer mail-in voting this year.

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