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I am in exactly the same spot you're in. I have two phone numbers available to me and neither is accepted. However, I have a different take on it: Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." This being the federal government in 2026, I think it's more likely that bureaucratic incompetence at play.

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I believe that the staff are competent professionals. I don't believe that it's possible for Brawndo swigging morons to operate a single signon service for the United States federal government for multiple years, over multiple presidential administrations, without inducing a spontaneous self-immolation of mushroom cloud proportions (thinking of a certain poorly secured warehouse full of ammonium nitrate in Lebanon).

Do they have morals, and are those morals aligned with patriotic allegiance to the USA? Asking for a friend.

I don't know if you read the full post at http://consulting.m3047.net/dubai-letters/voter-id-industry-...

I will take a certain level of incompetence over outsourcing adjudication (and the priors for that, data) to private industry. Outsourcing isn't going to eliminate incompetence it just moves it beyond petitioning for redress as a citizen. And a few other things.

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