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Whistleblower warns USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
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1:01Now PlayingThe U.S. Postal Service could "derail" the midterm election if it continues rushing out "untested" technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, a newly released whistleblower report warns.
"USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation — raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug," a disclosure that Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut submitted Monday to USPS states.
The disclosure was prepared by Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit organization representing the anonymous federal government official with direct knowledge of the postal service's development of the new system.
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