Pennsylvania Election Chief Says Discarded Ballots Weren’t a Case of ‘Intentional Fraud’

Mail-in primary election ballots are processed at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa., on May 28, 2020. Matt Rourke/AP Photo

The official overseeing elections in the state of Pennsylvania claimed Wednesday that the nine military mail-in ballots discarded before being found outside a dumpster weren’t a case of “intentional fraud.”

“From the initial reports we’ve been given, this was a bad error,” Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, said during an online news conference. “This was not intentional fraud. So training, training, training.”