Oh No! Trouble in America's Largest Precinct

United States Postal Service leadership vacuum

Editor's Note: Many of us in the election integrity community believe mail-in ballots are the source of . . . shall we say . . . many questions. There are the ballots that arrive after election day, the ballots that get lost, ballots that are harvested. At the center of these questions is the United States Postal Service.

from The Federalist December 15, 2025

USPS is the largest ‘precinct’ in federal elections, yet has no citizens conducting oversight to prevent ballot tampering or loss.

History wants to remember the Covid era as the genesis of mail-in voting, spurred on by the need for social distancing. But Democrats and a little-known nonprofit — the National Vote at Home Institute — were pushing for mail voting years before the pandemic, and Covid in the middle of the 2020 presidential election presented the perfect crisis for them to advance the cause.  

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processed and delivered 135 million ballots in 2020, including blank ballots sent out from election officers and completed ballots from voters, according to USPS data. In a way, that makes USPS the largest “precinct” in federal elections. It is a precinct with no citizens acting as judges of elections or conducting other oversight, in a system lacking chain of custody securities to prevent ballot tampering or loss.  

This gives leadership at USPS a vital role in guarding election integrity. Or it is an incredible opportunity to put a fox in charge of the henhouse.

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