Richard Blumenthal: “Local governments have been financially struggling to recover from Hurricane Irma.”

This is not just incompetence, it is designed malfunction.

It could delay ballots by the thousands in repeated verification cycles — and thus prevent states from mailing enormous numbers of ballots.

It is almost certainly never going to be approved by a court because it violates basic constitutional rights.

But they also raise a broader question: whether the Navy can sustain the operational tempo now being demanded of its carrier force