Mail-in voting
Posted on by Randy Slovacek

Postal Service Developing Complex Mail-In Ballot Screening Process

The U.S. Postal Service has been swiftly developing a complex screening system for mail-in ballots ahead of this year’s midterm elections despite a court order temporarily barring Trump’s plan to restrict mail-in voting.

Here’s a breakdown of how the process is supposed to work IF it were to be implemented.

From the New York Times (gift link):

States would upload to the new Postal Service portal a list of the names of voters who will be sent mail ballots, along with their addresses and unique bar codes. States would have to use Postal Service-approved envelopes for all mail ballots designed to make the bar codes scannable.

Once election offices put ballots in the mail for delivery, the Postal Service would screen the ballots before accepting them by scanning the exterior bar code of one ballot in a tranche of as many as 10,000 to make sure that the recipient is included in the list of voters uploaded to the portal.

The agency would reject ballots and not deliver them if the bar code on the exterior of the sample ballot does not match the data in the portal, according to a Postal Service fact sheet. In those cases, the ballots would be returned to election offices, which could correct any errors.

Such a mis-scan could delay the entire bulk mailing, according to the whistle-blower report. Scanning bar codes routinely leads to errors, and the whistle-blower said the new system could be rife with problems because of its rushed development and inadequate testing.

Read more at the Times.

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