USPS Whistleblower Says Trump Officials Were Defying Court Order With ‘Rushed, Secretive’ Effort

As Twitchy reported, it was a back-and-forth week between the Supreme Court and a federal judge last week regarding President Trump's executive order on election integrity, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections." The Supreme Court cleared the path on Monday for the measures to go ahead, but Judge Indira Talwani blocked them from going into effect. She ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service “feigned complete compliance” and violated her injunction by finalizing the new rules. On Thursday, she lifted her injunction but left things open for states to sue again, which they did. Then, she once again blocked the executive order from taking effect for 14 days.

One of the ballot integrity measures Trump called for was having the Postal Service add unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as barcodes, for mail-in or absentee ballots. Now, The New York Times is reporting that a Postal Service whistleblower reported significant concerns about the "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entire new and untested set of IT systems. Of course, it's rushed. Trump signed the EO back in March, but it's been held up in court while opponents of the measures wait out the clock until the first mail-in ballots go out.

Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail. https://t.co/ZBoklOtvrQ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 1, 2026

Defying court orders to engage in election interference should bring prison time.

Lock them up.

Defend democracy. https://t.co/92DiZ790KB
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 1, 2026

Oh, shut up. California is a big part of the problem, suing to prevent itself from providing voter rolls so that the DHS can check for citizenship.

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public https://t.co/9jfaAQhw56
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) September 1, 2026

Here's Eric Swalwell's best bud:

A whistleblower just confirmed Trump's mail-ballot verification system is broken enough to lose or reject people's ballots ahead of the midterms.

I am calling for an immediate stop to this rollout, and I am demanding that USPS leadership come before Congress to testify under… https://t.co/UYIV8jjosL
— Senator Ruben Gallego (@SenRubenGallego) September 1, 2026

A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans.
The official filed a whistle-blower report, published on Tuesday morning by the office of Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, asserting that the “risky and haphazard” implementation of Mr. Trump’s order could lead to a “catastrophic failure” in the mail ballot system ahead of this year’s midterm elections. The report said that the agency had planned to complete the new digital system overseeing mail ballots by Sept. 1.
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the official said in the report, which was prepared with the assistance of Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit group that represents people seeking to expose potential lawbreaking.

"The official at the Postal Service raised 'grave concerns' in the report that the verification process in the system could reject tens of thousands of ballots in a bulk-mailing batch if 'even one bar code on one single ballot' failed to properly scan, and that the rushed, 'slapdash' development of the system would significantly increase the chance of errors and other failures in the verification process," Cameron added.

The court order was illegal as SCOTUS confirmed. District judges have no power to enjoin federal agencies from crafting policy
— One Eyed Man in the Land of the Blind (@SJonNantucket) September 1, 2026

Nothing secret about the fact that the Postal Service has been preparing an already is in progress of using the mail in ballot program because the judge has been overruled and there ain't a damn thing you Democrats can do about it
— Andrew Cherrone (@shdwolf46637) September 1, 2026

The Supreme Court and common sense say President Trump runs the U.S. Postal Service.

Now, what is the name of the whistle-blower? They are protected by law so name the person.
— Clarence Younger (@YoungerClarence) September 1, 2026

The Supreme Court ruled in favor. Not a low level activist judge . Clown reporting
— Gerry (@bigblue_g69226) September 1, 2026

“Whistleblower” means some random leftist at the Post Office. Retailers use mail tracking with few problems.
— Ralph Carpenter (@RalphWCarpenter) September 1, 2026

There is no law against developing a system to be ready for when the activist judges order gets removed.
— Tassili (@Tassili100) September 1, 2026

Yes the notoriously conservative USPS is doing Trump's bidding in secret
— Chuck Finley (@repeal_19) September 1, 2026

A "secretive, rushed" effort affecting voting by mail, you say?

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election https://t.co/oG7YO34qLr
— Common Sense (@mywitsendalso) September 1, 2026

So the official, who works for the Postal Service, is afraid that “even one bar code on one single ballot” could fail to properly scan. So, it's better to just send mail-in ballots to everyone on the voter rolls with no tracking system whatsoever, because that's so much more secure. Where is this "grave concern" about electronic voting and even one ballot failing to scan properly? Let's go to paper ballots and voter ID so that Trump can't cheat.

***

Editor’s Note: Republicans are fighting for election integrity by requiring proper identification to vote. It's common sense, yet Democrats are spreading lies about the impact of such a measure.

Help us continue to call out these lies by joining Twitchy VIP and using promo code FIGHT to receive 60% off your membership.