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The Whistleblower On Trump’s Ballot Scheme
The Postal Service was building the system to carry out Trump’s mail ballot rule, and it was supposed to switch on September 1. Two days before that, an anonymous Postal Service official told Congress what building it had looked like from the inside.
They said there were no written instructions for the workers, so everything they were doing was based on what they heard in meetings. Testing that should have taken weeks only got days. They added that a job this size would take a year to build—they only got three months.
When a worker spoke out to a supervisor about the issues, they responded saying, “We cannot fail.”
If you vote by mail, after you submit it to the election office they will usually deliver it to the Postal Service in big batches. If one barcode in a batch of ten thousand doesn’t scan correctly, the whistleblower said, the Postal Service rejects the entire batch and sends it back.
Federal Judge Indira Talwani froze Trump’s ballot rule on August 27, and refused to unfreeze it on Monday. As of now, no state can be forced onto this new system. Talwani hears the next round for the case on Thursday morning.
And if you vote by mail, your ballot still goes out.
Steve Simon Won. Trump’s Own Judge Agreed.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon takes his job seriously. No matter what, he won’t be bullied into crossing the line into any legally murky territory. He follows the law by the book. The Trump regime and an outside group both took Simon to court to get the state’s voter data—Simon stood strong.
On August 17, the DOJ’s lawsuit to get the Minnesota voter file was thrown out by a federal judge. They didn’t want just names and addresses, but parts of their Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.
Simon wasn’t willing to hand it over, and the regime still doesn’t have that data. “My responsibility to Minnesota voters starts and ends with the law,” Simon said, adding that “the private data entrusted to my office does not belong to the federal government.” He’s right.
Eleven days later, three judges who were appointed by Republicans—one of them by Trump—ended a second fight over the same list. The Public Interest Legal Foundation had also been after Simon over the list for two years and four months.
On Friday, they lost. Judge James Loken wrote that their argument collided with precedent they “either missed or conveniently ignored.”
Steve Simon never gave up a name. Not one.
Warnock Moves To Freeze Georgia Data Centers
Raymond Carver lives near where OpenAI wants to build a data center on 1,440 acres of land in Effingham County, Georgia. County officials pitched to residents that it would lead to a property tax cut. Carver stood up at a local meeting and said he didn’t want it. “Helping me with my taxes is nothing I asked for,” Carver said. “I ask for quiet enjoyment of my home.”
A nondisclosure agreement was signed by local leaders on October 27, 2025—residents found out on July 22 of this year.
The contract they signed would exempt half the property’s value from taxes for the next 15 years, and would let OpenAI buy each finished building on the site from the county authority for $10. I am not missing zeroes there. Ten dollars.
In response, people started showing up—not just in Effingham County, but across Georgia. By late July, 24 Georgia cities and counties voted to stop even accepting data center applications. Cherokee County added a six-month moratorium. Lowndes County followed, along with Savannah which unanimously voted to pause large data center development on August 27.
On Friday, Sen. Raphael Warnock kept the momentum going by calling for a moratorium on data center development across Georgia. He added that it should only be lifted if there are guarantees that no one’s power bill will go up, nothing gets polluted, and no secret agreements can hide the deal.
A $20 billion deal, with residents notified 24 hours after it was signed—Warnock says never again.
Five Neighbors Beat Their City Council
In July, five residents of Trenton, Ohio, turned in a petition to let their city vote on banning data centers. They handed over 464 signatures. The Butler County Board of Elections validated 336 and wrote on its own results page that 128 electors’ signatures were required.
Then the city council decided that “electors” meant everyone registered to vote, not just everyone who voted in the last municipal election. Under that reading, 820 signatures were needed.
It seemed as if the council needed a lesson, so on July 29 the residents had a letter hand-delivered to city hall laying out exactly what Ohio law states. Only five days later the council passed an emergency ordinance throwing the petition in the trash.
Residents kept fighting and sued the city. Barry and Lorie Blankenship, Steven Wallace, Lesa DeRosier, and Amy Humbert—five neighbors taking on the city, the company building a data center, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, and the Ohio Municipal League. The opposition argued that the court should throw out a rule that’s been settled for 30 years: in order to get on the ballot, petitions require signatures equal to 10% of votes cast in the previous municipal election.
Yesterday, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously refused to strike down the rule. The justices wrote that the council had a “mandatory constitutional duty” to certify the petition and instead “disregarded applicable law.” They also ordered Trenton to hold a special election and put the measure before voters.
Five people beat their city council, a data center company, and two statewide business groups.
We are now less than 9 weeks away from Election Day. Mail ballots start getting sent out in some states this week. The midterm election is here—and we are full speed ahead with our campaign to flip Congress.
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Onward!
Scott
If you vote by mail, how do you get your ballot in—mailbox, drop box, or straight to the election office?
Raymond Carver turned down a tax cut to keep his neighborhood quiet. Would you?
Two focuses for today!
**Yosemite.** A Nevada developer wants a strip of the park for a private road. 1,172 letters in the first three days. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-yosemite-giveaway
**Mail voting.** Hearing is Thursday, and ballots are already going out in some states. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-protect-our-use-of-voting-by-mail-and-voting-machines/
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