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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

reminder to check the status of your ballot: https://lemmy.world/post/21409313

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That’s why I’m choosing to face the violence next Tuesday

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not all states support ballot tracking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This just maybe the craziest election I have experienced in my life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Buckle up, this ride is just starting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Makes Bush v. Gore look tame

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Some people born after the 2000 election are 23

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depending on who wins this may be the craziest and last.

[–] explodicle 2 points 5 hours ago

Super bleak, read at your own riskIf Trump wins it won't be the last election. Elections will become increasingly more of a sham than they already are, but the legitimacy propaganda is useful to Republicans. The electoral college will become more powerful, his supporters will throw out more ballots from poor districts, and the Supreme Court will keep overriding results. All this will be done while gaslighting the population about how they're fixing democracy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (7 children)

But this election, you get your choice of toppings!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Roger Stone was behind that madness, as well as J6 – he was so confident in their J6 plans, he had a legitimate documentary team following him that day as they did their ‘war room’ fuckery at the Willard hotel, and some of their footage was used at the J6 congressional hearings.

And good news, everybody! Stone is still walking free and doing more of the same fuckery as we speak! He’s still, to this day, a main operative behind trump’s campaign. Will be wild!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Roger Stone was convicted of his fuckery around congressional inquiries in 2020, seven felonies, and Trump commuted his sentence in July 2020.

Then in December 2020, Trump pardoned Stone, along with Manafort and Charles Kushner (father of Jared Kushner).

I'm not sure how it's very cool and very legal to be able to pardon people who did crimes for you, but there you have it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The 2000 election was decided illegally. Dems should have done a nationwide French-style full protest with complete work stoppage and vandalism.

[–] explodicle 3 points 5 hours ago

The failure of FPTP was laid bare for all to see. Anyone who doesn't support RCV after that is either a fool or already bought.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This is when I first started to hate ted cruz and was introduced to three of the current justices

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html

[–] Jakeroxs 2 points 8 hours ago

Holy shit, how did I not know this before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Jesus Christ

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, December 12, 2024 hasn't happened yet. There's always a chance they get involved again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

And who would they side with this time I wonder 🤔

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's funny how all these "errors" seem to occur in blue areas, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Yes, almost as if some people are trying to sabotage voting specifically in blue areas.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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