Containers with Miami-Dade ballots were found on the side of a road overnight after they fell out of a county truck, the Elections Department confirmed Tuesday.
“The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out,” Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, said Tuesday morning.
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United States Mailman is accused of tossing away more than 1,000 pieces of mail, including 400 pieces of pollical mail and one election ballot, according to newly filed court documents.
On Friday, federal authorities arrested Ottis McCoy for stealing United State mail and dumping it in the woods instead of delivering it to his assigned route in Orlando.
According to court documents, a co-worker told McCoy’s manager that he had returned from his route earlier than expected despite leaving with a “very large quantity of mail.”
The manager checked McCoy’s vehicle’s GPS and learned that he had deviated from his route to a wooded lot where the co-worker found several pieces of mail scattered around.
A Postal Inspector with the United States Postal Inspection Service began an investigation into the incident and obtained surveillance video from a nearby resident that purportedly shows McCoy arriving at the wooded lot in his Postal van, the documents stated….