The elections department called it a case of human error.
A Miami-Dade elections worker was fired after a sealed bin and a sealed bag of ballots fell out of their truck and were discovered on the side of the road, according to the county's elections department.
The elections department called it a case of human error. The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out, containing already voted ballots from early voting.
The sealed containers with the ballots inside had already been scanned and tabulated at the South Dade Regional Library's early voting site on Monday, according to the Miami Herald.
A driver spotted the bin and bag with the ballots near 211 Street and the Turnpike Extension in Cutler Bay, according to a video posted by OnlyInDade.
If you're in a swing state I encourage you to find a way to vote early, waiting for election day is an unnecessary risk. (A lot of places have in-person early voting, for example.)
If you're not in a swing state, admittedly it matters a lot less what you do.
Yeah I’m in Ohio. We have two important votes, one of which (issue 1) is dead in the water because Frank LaRose maliciously changed the wording. But our attitude is that it’s not unlikely our state will try to throw out the early ballots.
Honestly, I don’t know the best course of action. This election is going really badly in regards to the overt interference from right wing authoritarians.
Because mailing in your ballot and verifying it was counted through the online portal is hard? I don't understand. I voted last week and my vote is already counted as were these ballots. Nothing was lost.
Because my wife worries that early votes may be contested more thoroughly or tampered with more heavily than in person ones. And if I’m being honest I wasn’t aware that the online portals let you see if your vote is counted. I check them before the election but not after.
Early voting is the right choice for most people, but we’re choosing to do day of. If that means we’re in line until dawn I respect my wife’s decision there.
2000 was still worse, as presidential elections go. The race wasn't decided until December 12, 2000, only after the Brooks Bros Riot, and SCOTUS basically saying "Stop counting, Bush wins."
Lmao. At least they were already counted. Now, if it comes down to a 2000 style election and these need to be recounted for awarding the electoral votes? Yikes.
Unfortunately, Florida isn't even considered a swing state anymore. The only way this becomes an issue is if somehow Harris wins the state and it's all because of Miami-Dade cancelling out most of the rest of the state.
Harris winning Florida, 0 to slim chance. Miami-Dade being the reason, impossible.
They were already counted until some buffoon goes "Oh noe this is fraudulent, you need to go recount all the paper copies. Oh what do you mean you lost a bunch of paper copies? Those votes are invalid now, too bad teehee"
How do you just forget to lock the back of a truck full of ballots? There's so much weird shit going on right now it's hard to tell what's intentional and what isn't.
I'm assuming it was a box truck with a roller door (like a garage door), and by locked, they might have meant latched. Forgetting to latch the door is a really easy mistake when in a rush or otherwise preoccupied and when the truck hits a bump, the door could easily roll up.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Also, Hanlon's razor just means that in normal circumstances stupidity is the simplest and most likely explanation, but malice is still a possibility, and these are far from normal circumstances... you've got a significant portion of the population which is both extremely stupid and extremely malicious...
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