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.
This just maybe the craziest election I have experienced in my life.
In your life, so far.
Depending on who wins this may be the craziest and last.
Oh no.
But this election, you get your choice of toppings!
That’s good!
The toppings are loaded with potassium benzoate.
…
That’s bad.
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.”
Well, December 12, 2024 hasn’t happened yet. There’s always a chance they get involved again
And who would they side with this time I wonder 🤔
This is when I first started to hate ted cruz and was introduced to three of the current justices
Jesus Christ
Makes Bush v. Gore look tame
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.
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”
And then, when it looked like Gore might win, anyway, the Supreme Court just halted the recount altogether and declared bush the winner.
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.
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.
How does a truck even need to be locked?
You slam the door shut and it stays shut.It’s Florida though. It having doors is a shocker.
Double swing out doors, not pull down grate?
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.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
– George Carlin
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
– Hanlon’s razor
It’s funny how all these “errors” seem to occur in blue areas, isn’t it?
Yes, almost as if some people are trying to sabotage voting specifically in blue areas.
How many errors have there been?
Multiple things like https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/ and ballot boxes being burned in blue areas, though
Is Miami-Dade blue?
Yes, 63% for Hilary, 53% for Biden, but red during 2022 midterms.
That’s a total of 116%.Edit: just read it again, sorry!Florida math.
That’s why I’m choosing to face the violence next Tuesday
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.
I think being afraid early ballots won’t be counted is just playing into their hand because it prevents you from voting early - they probably want as many people to wait for election day as possible so people will bail on extremely long lines, they can try to shut down polling locations, they probably hope that people have emergencies or other issues that prevent them from voting, etc.
This is just classic voter suppression.
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.
Not all states support ballot tracking
reminder to check the status of your ballot: https://lemmy.world/post/21409313
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