Patrick Marley
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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The person who provided this information said they were very worried there could be a catastrophic failure that would result in many people being unable to vote by mail.
They want the states to upload lists of voters who are eligible to receive mail ballots through a new, as yet unseen, online portal to the Postal Service.
And then when they bring in their ballots in large quantities to mail, the post office would scan barcodes on the envelopes of those ballots and compare them to the list that they had been provided.
If you had a batch of 10,000 ballots and one questionable ballot or problem with the address or the name in there and 9,999 ballots that were perfectly valid, if that one ballot were found by the postal office, it would hold up the entire batch of 10,000 ballots.
There are several lawsuits that have been happening at the same time and they overlap in lots of ways, some of them before the same judge, some of them before other judges.
There's appeals.
The Supreme Court has already weighed in on one sort of procedural element to it all, and it very well could return to the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump has really inserted himself into the midterm elections, and not just in the normal way a president might where they're trying to influence elections, but by actually changing the rules of elections.
So it's really this broad approach that is unlike anything we've seen in modern history.
It would be extremely disruptive to get rid of voting machines.
It would slow down the count greatly.
It would require hundreds of thousands of more poll workers if it were implemented nationally.
We'd be waiting weeks for results.
Results couldn't be trusted.
They'd be less accurate.
It's the kind of idea that's got both Republicans and Democrats alarmed.
The states have largely rejected this.
There are 10 or so states who have said they would agree with the administration and have either provided the list or said that they would provide the list.
The other states are fighting it in court.
The Department of Justice had sued more than 20 states now.
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