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YOUTUBE (CNN) - 'Designed to fail': States warn they can't meet Trump mail ballot demands

Trump administration efforts to force change in the handling of election ballots may be facing a bigger hurdle than the cross-country court challenges and resistance: With just 62 days to go before midterm elections, election officials insist it is simply too late for them to even try to comply with the proposed rules. In court filings and interviews with CNN, election officials and other mail voting experts said that there is no practical way to comply with the Postal Service’s plans – even if states can find the millions of dollars they expect compliance to cost. "This system cannot be implemented consistent with the right to vote," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told CNN, adding that the new rules are "haphazard," "negligent" and…

AXIOS (Andrew Pantazi) - USPS whistleblower warns new ballot system could fail

A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots . The big picture: The whistleblower says the Postal Service built the system in weeks, not the nine months to a year normally needed for a project of this complexity. - The system stems from an executive order signed by President Trump that mandated the federal government to generate lists of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote, and for the postmaster general to propose a rule that USPS will not transmit ballots from any people not on their state list. - The rule appeared in the Federal Register late last month. The latest: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a…