USPS whistleblower predicts ‘catastrophic’ effect on elections under Trump vote-by-mail order

By: Jacob Fischler

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: September 1, 2026

Words: 955

Last Updated: 10 hours, 3 minutes ago

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The U.S. Postal Service rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, and defied a court order to stop work on the system, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint published Tuesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

The unnamed whistleblower predicted the result could be “foreseeable catastrophic disruption to our coming nationwide elections based on the reckless pursuit of readying a new, insufficiently tested, poorly …

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