THELOGICALINDIAN - The United States Postal Service USPS is falling afar at the seams and abounding Americans are blaming the Trump administering The USPS may accept to accord with the US acclamation election action as mailin votes may be the ascendant convenance acknowledgment to the coronavirus Amid the American publics anxious acknowledgment about the centralized problems at the USPS on August 13 the postal article appear a apparent for a blockchainbased mailin voting system
Every distinct day on amusing media and Reddit forums, users in the United States are discussing the United States Postal Service (USPS) and how the operation ability be in ruins. Americans are alpha to apprehend on a civic calibration that the USPS is financially bankrupt and not sustainable.
On amusing media, U.S. citizens are sharing images of bound letter stations and mailboxes actuality carted abroad on flatbeds. The Trump administration’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy additionally fabricated a accommodation to abolish hundreds of high-volume mail-processing machines civic outraging Democrats.
Many Americans are acquainted that mail-in voting best acceptable will be the best ascendant adjustment acclimated this November during the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election. Trump has explained to the media on a cardinal of occasions that it’s acceptable the voting action will go bottomward in this manner.
DeJoy’s contempo moves accomplish some bodies accept that voter suppression is accident and a left-leaning absolute activity alignment alleged “Shut Down D.C.” has organized a beef alfresco the Postmaster’s home.
However, President Trump commended the Postmaster’s contempo moves and said DeJoy “wants to accomplish the column appointment abundant again.”
Amid all the indignant complaints from Democrats, the USPS seems to be affective against leveraging blockchain technology in a new mail-in voting apparent published aftermost Thursday. Even back the USPS was in bigger standards than it is today, voters complained that the mail-in voting arrangement was riddled with manipulation.
This is due to the actuality that investigations accept found dogs and alike dead people allegedly ‘voted’ in above-mentioned U.S. presidential elections. The apparent appear on the United States Apparent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is alleged “The Secure Voting System.”
“Often a aborigine is not able to or does not admiration to go to a polling abode to casting a vote,” the USPS apparent description notes. “An acclamation official in a administration may ambition to accelerate defended ballots via mail. Or, a administration may opt to advance cyberbanking assets for voting. In such cases, a defended voting arrangement is desired.” The apparent description additionally adds:
The apparent is 47 pages continued and contains a countless of diagrams account how the blockchain-based mail-in voting arrangement would assignment theoretically.
“The aegis of a voting arrangement can be added by application the abidingness and aegis of the United States Postal Service or agnate entity,” the USPS apparent details. “And this can be congenital with a defended computer arrangement application a blockchain or broadcast balance to ensure vote aegis and to anticipate analytical or modification of cyberbanking voting results.”
No one absolutely knows if the blockchain arrangement can be implemented in time by the November election, but bodies do anticipate that it is awful casual the USPS would broadcast this apparent aloof a few months prior.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the USPS could arrange a blockchain arrangement if there is abundant appeal for it, but abounding accept it may be too backward to arrange such a system.
DeJoy charge arise afore a audition by the House Oversight Committee with the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb on September 17. The U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and added Democrats created this audition in adjustment to abode the USPS leader’s declared centralized problems.
Even the House Oversight Committee may not be enough, as it will appear alone a few weeks afore the U.S. election. This has invoked the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and added House Democratic leaders, to alarm for an beforehand affair afore September 17. Pelosi and added bureaucrats may attack to accommodated this anniversary in adjustment to abode the USPS issues.
A House Democratic abettor told the newsdesk Axios that the Democrats apperceive the accepted issues with the USPS a “crisis,” and the complaints mostly circumduct about the administration of the mail-in vote scheme.
It’s adequately accepted that a mail-in voting adjustment for the 2024 U.S. acclamation will happen, but whether or not the USPS and added entities advantage blockchain seems to be actuality discussed by axial planners. Meanwhile, the 2024 U.S. acclamation is alone 77 canicule abroad and time is active out.
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