Woman finds a box of mail in ballots on East Hollywood sidewalk

[jimfields33]

https://www.foxla.com/news/woman-finds-box-of-mail-in-ballot-on-east-hollywood-sidewalk-la-county-registrar-investigating?taid=6279ea4f41582d00019990fd&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter


This is local news station. What I find weird is that it’s almost six months after election and someone just now see them on the sidewalk.

[secondwind]

1. I can only mean one thing.. It was put there in the last 24 hours.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes it was just placed there very recently.

[Mz Pip]

3. Primary election ballots

CA primary is in a few weeks. I think these were ballots for the primary, no old completed ballots. New ballots are being sent for those whose ballots were in that box.

[RandiFan1290]

4. Do you want to test them for bamboo, Jim?

[jimfields33]

5. Lol. That's a good one.

Trust me those crazy trumpers are probably stomping their feet about it. Ha!

[Kingofalldems]

6. Yeah, the fact is---they want us dead.

Whenever I notice one I keep this in mind.

Also they are incredibly dishonest.

[RandiFan1290]

8. Amen

[chia]

7. These were ballots being sent out to voters for the upcoming primary. I got my ballot yesterday.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. My son lives there. He said EVERYBODY gets sent mail-in ballots

and voters can choose to use them or vote in-person.

[chia]

10. Yes to all registered voters, since last year's AB-37 permanently extended the pandemic provisions.

Point being that the OP was thinking they were from the last election when they are for the upcoming primary.

[Sympthsical]

11. Ballots are everywhere at the moment

Because of Covid, changes in address, family, etc., we get like eight ballots in the mail for every minor election. It's lovely. Just giant packets of paper clogging us up.

Anyway, tis the season with primaries and local elections, so ballots have been going out for the past week. They're pretty ubiquitous since we're a vote by mail state.

On edit, this story seems like a case of a postal worker either losing them somehow or just not giving a flip. I see it. Seriously, the mail-in ballots are very thick, heavy packets. Everyone gets them, and I can only imagine it's one of USPS workers' least favorite times of year.

[LeftInTX]

13. Yes, but if a postal worker dumped them, it's not good and illegal.

[Sympthsical]

14. Oh, absolutely

I just don't see an obvious nerfarious political motive in it. More a question about what was up with the postal worker.

Plus the OP and others don't seem to know we're in the midst of an election.

[LeftInTX]

15. Yes, but Elections Office have a working relationship with a specific Post Office..

When Elections brings ballots to the PO to and from the PO, it's a much different situation that when a business brings in a tray of bulk mail.

Where I live in San Antonio, there is only one Elections Office. They work with only one Post Office. All Elections Mail sent and received goes through this Post Office.

When voters mail their ballots, it will first go through their local zip code Post Office and is routed to the Post Office associated with the Elections Office.

All postal workers are aware when there is an election.

This is not good. Sorry.

[LeftInTX]

12. Yikes!

Early signs indicate that this was an incident of mail theft and not a directed attempt at disrupting the election.

Yes, but..HTF did that happen?

Here is the process. Something went wrong!

1. Tray is filled at the Register's Office
2. Register's Office carries tray to the Post Office
3. Post Office processes and mails the ballots

So did someone from the Register's Office discard the tray?
Did a Post Office employee discard the tray?

Not good!

[Ms. Toad]

16. They were outbound ballots for the June election. n/t