USPS whistleblower warns new ballot system could fail
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots . The big picture: The whistleblower says the Postal Service built the system in weeks, not the nine months to a year normally needed for a project of this complexity. The system stems from an executive order signed by President Trump that mandated the federal government to generate lists of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to…
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- First observed by CurrentWire: CBS News · Sep 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM ET
- Coverage span: 28 min
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 8h 35m
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USPS whistleblower warns new ballot system could fail(opens original report in a new tab)CBS NewsTier B
Whistleblower warns about USPS' new mail ballot system(opens original report in a new tab)A whistleblower has issued a warning of "potentially catastrophic problems" with the U.S. Postal Service's new system for handling mail ballots. CBS News election law expert and political contributor David Becker has… — CBS News
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