1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

Why Is USPS Building a Ballot System Designed to Fail Millions of Voters? I am asking you to demand an emergency investigation into a new U.S. Postal Service ballot-verification system that a federal whistleblower warns could keep millions of Americans from receiving their mail ballots, and to publicly condemn it as the overreach it appears to be. On March 31, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14399, directing USPS to refuse delivery of mail ballots for any voter not entered into a new federal portal. A whistleblower disclosure made public September 2 and prepared by Whistleblower Aid reveals USPS built this system in a matter of weeks instead of the nine to twelve months normally required, and adopted a “zero-percent failure” rule: if even one barcode in a batch of 10,000 ballots fails to scan, all 10,000 are rejected and sent back. Roughly one in three American voters cast ballots by mail, according to Senator Blumenthal, who is now demanding answers from the Postmaster General. A federal judge blocked the rule nationwide on August 11 and again on August 27. This isn’t a one-sided complaint. Don Millis, the Republican chair of the Wisconsin Election Commission, called compliance “virtually impossible,” and the nonpartisan Bipartisan Policy Center warned in July that the portal didn’t even exist yet, with no realistic path for states to comply before November. I vote by mail because it’s how I fit civic duty into a full life, and the thought that one scanner error could silently erase my ballot — no notice, no time to fix it before Election Day — isn’t abstract to me. It’s whether my vote counts this year. I am asking you to: • Demand USPS turn over full documentation of the portal’s testing and error rates to the relevant oversight committee immediately • Cosponsor H.R. 8666, the Vote by Mail Protection Act, or its Senate companion, S. 4369, to void Executive Order 14399 • Issue a public statement condemning this rushed, untested system before more ballots go out Blumenthal calls this “designed malfunction.” Until USPS proves that word wrong, this system needs to be stopped before it decides, quietly and by accident, who gets to vote. Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.