A whistleblower says USPS was given three months for work that normally takes about a year, and that the portal's scanners sample 15 to 400 envelopes per batch while allowing no failed matches. The administration is appealing the judge's order.
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USPS built the mail-ballot portal in 3 months to comply with Trump's executive order.
Timeline traces to the whistleblower disclosure filed with Sen. Blumenthal and echoed in PBS/AP, LA Times and Guardian coverage, but the story's headline states it as fact rather than attributing it.
Medium
The whistleblower said the portal would normally need about 1 year of development time, against the 3 months USPS was given.
Explicitly attributed to the whistleblower in the story's own wording; an estimate from a single identified insider, corroborated across the Blumenthal disclosure and PBS/AP and LA Times reporting.
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The disclosure says scanners sample 15 to 400 envelopes per batch with a 0% permitted failure rate.
Explicitly attributed to the whistleblower disclosure filed with Sen. Blumenthal; specific sampling figures rest on that single document, though several outlets carry it.
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One mismatched scan can cause rejection of tens of thousands of ballot envelopes in a batch.
The 'tens of thousands' magnitude is the desk's own extrapolation from the sampling rule; the story does not attribute this consequence estimate to the whistleblower, Blumenthal or any named source.