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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

USPS could throw out millions of mail-in ballots under ‘s*** show’ Trump changes, whistleblower warns

An anonymous federal official has warned members of Congress that Donald Trump’s “secretive, rushed” and “chaotic” plans for the U.S. Postal Service to implement new rules for mail-in ballots could disenfranchise millions of voters this fall.

Tuesday’s whistleblower report outlines “potentially catastrophic problems” with the administration’s brand-new system, including a “zero-percent failure policy” that could reject tens of thousands of ballots at a time if any single mistakes are made, including misread barcodes or inadvertent errors from postal workers.

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