How does a box of ballots just "disappear" anyway?
My Dad was an election judge some time back.
He told me of a story where a truck delivering ballots took a corner too sharp and dumped a bunch of ballot boxes all over the street. The ballots spilled out all over the street and many were lost. Nothing was mentioned to the public about the incident.
Also, he told me that he learned that they don't count the absentee ballots unless an election is close. Don't know how true this is.
Too bad there isn't more accountability. People assume that the election process is fair. It may be totally screwed up.