A passing driver found two containers of already-completed ballots on a Florida road after an election worker reportedly forgot to lock the back of the truck that was carrying them, according to a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, who noted that the employee has been fired.
A video shared on social media by citizen journalism group Only in Dade shows the two containers—a blue box and bag—strewn on a road near Florida’s Turnpike in Cutler Bay on Oct. 28. The footage shows the unidentified driver stopping to pick them up and later taking them to a local police station.
Elections staff retrieved the box and bag from the Miami-Dade Police Department and verified that all seals were intact and that nothing had been tampered with or damaged, Ivan Castro, elections media manager at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
“The incident that occurred was due to human error,” Castro said. “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.”
