Passed Out Man Found With 300 California Recall Ballots

[diehardblue]

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — California authorities are investigating why a man found passed out in a car had more than 300 unopened mail-in ballots for the gubernatorial recall election.

The man was arrested Aug. 16 after being found in a store parking lot in Torrance, police said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2021-08-24/passed-out-man-found-with-300-california-recall-ballots

[viva la]

1. Well, obviously he's a very responsible and respectable election official

Must be a Republican.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Wonder how he got all those ballots?

The man was a felon who had drugs, a loaded firearm, thousands of pieces of mail, a scale and multiple California driver licenses and credit cards in other people’s name, police said.

The man, whose name was not released, was arrested for investigation of weapons, narcotics and forgery violations.



Replacement ballots will be sent out, police said.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Because he's a mail and identity thief

They found 1000's of pieces of mail in his car (non-ballots IOW) as well as credit cards in other people's names.

[Amishman]

4. Yup, a bit misleading. Has nothing to do specifically about ballots.

To him they are just another source of information to use for identity theft and fraud.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Anyone get past the firewall? Do they have time for do-overs?

[magicarpet]

6. Were the ballots all from Demo zip codes,...

... was he hired to dump/destroy those ballots so the Demo voters never got a chance to register their votes against a Newsome recall ?

Sounds like someone at the post office grabbed the ballots to prevent them from being properly directed to the legal recipients, or they were grabbed before they even reached the post office authorities and criminally redirected.