Posted on Tue, Nov. 02, 2004
MIRAMAR
Ballots delivered before mail-truck mishap
BY HANNAH SAMPSON
hsampson@herald.com
Some absentee ballots headed to voters in Southwest Broward narrowly avoided a watery fate Monday.After a U.S. Postal Service employee delivered them, his brakes apparently failed and his mail truck plunged into a Miramar canal, police said.
The accident was under investigation by Miramar Police and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
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It was not clear if any mail was in the truck when it went in the water, said Enola Rice, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service.
If so, it will be retrieved, she said.
The mail carrier had ''a few absentee ballots'' to deliver, Rice said in an e-mail message. But, she said, they were delivered before the accident.
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