- A whistleblower report warned Congress that new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail -in ballots under Donald Trump could disenfranchise millions of voters .
- The report alleges the Postal Service unlawfully moved forward with a rushed, chaotic ballot-tracking system despite federal court orders blocking the changes. USPS has eliminated standard and needed testing, thereby creating substantial risk of a “catastrophic failure” of the system that could “derail the midterm elections,” the whistleblower claims.
- Officials warned that the system's strict zero-percent failure policy could cause entire batches of thousands of ballots to be rejected over minor barcode errors or outdated voter rolls.
- Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and legal advocates accused the administration of purposefully creating chaos to suppress mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.
- State election officials expressed deep concern over the last-minute rules as states begin preparing and mailing out ballots to voters.
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