Whistleblower warns Trump mail ballot plan could be 'catastrophic'

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/01/donald-trump-postal-service-mail-ballots-whistleblower/91559060007/

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I read the proposed rule and it opens the door to multiple forms of abuse.

For example, they want to require elections officials to upload lists of all the ballots they intend to mail out. They specify that the state's chief election official will be the one with authority to authorize other users so that they can delegate the work, i.e. the state official authorizes the county officials to upload their lists so that the counties can mail the ballots.

So think about what happens if a state election official "forgets" to authorize officers from certain counties, and ballots never get mailed, or are mailed too late, just for those counties that happen to vote against the party in power? They're not going to go back and fix it, that's for sure.