{
  "id": 4881469,
  "title": "New system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/new-system-for-screening-mail-in-ballots-risks-denying-entire-batches",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T14:55:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/usps-whistleblower-mail-in-ballots-trump"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "US senator says that project, a key part of Trump’s voting restrictions, is ‘perilously rushed and potentially unlawful’ A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little, that a single scanning glitch could see entire batches of ballots turned away, a whistleblower has told Congress. The project – a…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}