I would not be surprised if the late mail-in ballots are being destroyed just as soon as they are counted just in case the Feds decide to audit. Heck, they may mot even be counting each ballot. Just weigh the bag/box and declare that it contains 2,973 ballots, write that number down in the ‘D’ column, and then throw the bag/box into the incinerator.
That’s actually a crime.
That would almost be funny.
I can picture a team of federal auditors showing up asking for all of the ballots, so that they can be carefully counted. And the local election officials saying, “Oh, we don’t actually have any ballots. They’re gone. But we do have vote totals. Do you want to know what the total vote was? We know who won.”