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.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      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

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        Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

        Also, Hanlon’s razor just means that in normal circumstances stupidity is the simplest and most likely explanation, but malice is still a possibility, and these are far from normal circumstances… you’ve got a significant portion of the population which is both extremely stupid and extremely malicious…

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        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.

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      I worked in geotech consulting and there is one piece of radioactive equipment used for soil testing that requires a certification to operate and transport in a vehicle, called a nuclear density/moisture gauge. Every year there’s an article that makes the news where a technician forgets to strap down the equipment so it doesn’t fall out the truck or not locking the box that holds the equipment and someone steals it. People really are stupid and lots of companies that give out work trucks don’t teach employees basic safety especially when towing or transporting fragile things.

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    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.

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      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”

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        And then, when it looked like Gore might win, anyway, the Supreme Court just halted the recount altogether and declared bush the winner.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

          EDIT: I also wanted to point out that Republicans are pushing early voting this year, so they are unlikely to throw out early ballots as a strategy (whereas that seemed like a strategy they were trying to pull in the past, hence the flip-flopping on whether to vote early when in the past they encouraged only voting on election day).

          Either way: please, please guarantee your vote is counted, do not risk it.

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          I share your anger about LaRose’s blatant attempts to sabotage Issue 1, but that didn’t stop me from voting early and in-person. The line looked long, but moved quickly and I was on my way home in 30 or 40 minutes.

          We only lose if we don’t vote! If you can vote early, I would encourage you to do so!

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      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.

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    It’s funny how all these “errors” seem to occur in blue areas, isn’t it?

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    Worker is not named in the story. Yeah yeah, innocent until blah blah, I ain’t got that kinda of time. NAME this worker cmon.

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      Nah. Nobody needs mob justice for this. Mob justice isn’t justice at all. It’s just crowd funded tyranny.

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        Think Trump fuckfaces don’t already have me and everyone queer on their mob justice lists? Do you think them saying “deported” means “dropped off at the border”? The tyranny is theirs and it came for me first.

        There’s never gonna be a Nuremberg for this, you realize.

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          Yeah I’m starting to lean towards burn these mother fuckers and their families to prevent the cancer spreading stage of traitors. Talking some Sherman shit, they try to dismantle our democracy? They forfeit the rights protected by said democracy. Just sayin.

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            No. No talk like that, good god. No reason to work yourself into some fever. Only reason to know what you’re up against. Only reason to know how things usually go. Chill those hands and quell those words.

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