Senator Richard Blumenthal received information from a whistleblower regarding rules for mail-in ballots.
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Bulwark TakesSep 15, 2026
Multiple tier1 and primary sources (AP, Minnesota Secretary of State, Blumenthal's own letter) confirm that Senator Richard Blumenthal publicly released a whistleblower disclosure about the USPS rule implementing Trump's mail-in ballot executive order.
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… mean, they would have been really, really under the gun when it comes to just having normal elections in their states if this if this had gone the other direction. And I just think, like and by the way, even even just that whistleblower report you mentioned, it was Sheldon Whitehouse who uh who had a whistleblower come to him. He had he had released a lot of stuff about this. There's a lot of malice in that. I mean, like, it's crazy that they drew up the rules in in the way that they did, where one or two bad ballots could contaminate an entire batch of any size. But even beyond it was blue oh, did I get that wrong? Sorry. Yeah, you're right, you're right, Blumenthal, not White house. But, yeah, thank you. But even beyond the the, like, rulemaking, even if even beyond that bit where everything as planned was bad, this thing also was all predicated on this brand new piece of software, this supposed USPS mail portal that the Postal Service …
Bulwark Takes · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP reports a whistleblower statement was released by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal concerning the USPS system for implementing Trump's mail-ballot executive order.[1]
Supports. Blumenthal's August 30/31 letter to Postmaster General Steiner explicitly references the whistleblower disclosure about USPS's rushed implementation of the rule.[2]
Supports. The Minnesota Secretary of State confirms Blumenthal made public a whistleblower disclosure on August 31, 2026 outlining the rushed implementation of the rule.[3]
Context. Coverage (ProPublica, Al Jazeera, Washington Examiner) consistently attributes the whistleblower complaint to Blumenthal's office and notes it concerns the mail-ballot rules and verification portal.[4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Whistleblower: Postal Service rushing to comply with ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2David Steiner August 31, 2026 Page 1blumenthal.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Minnesota Secretary Of State - Secretary Simon Provides ...sos.mn.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisementpropublica.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 5What to know about USPS mail-in ballot rule amid whistleblower claimswashingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6What’s behind the vote-by-mail controversy in the US?aljazeera.com · not rated · cited for: context
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