“It’s a nesting doll problem. Either you throw the key in an non-secure desk drawer, or it’s “under lock and key” and someone has to personally hold THAT key.”
It should be like ballots are secured. Two keys are needed to open the area where the boxes are - the sheriff has one key and the election administrator has the other key. A paper trail has to follow those two if the area is opened.
...and that may very well have been the case, except one of the keys was offsite.
Someone mentioned that they had to saw through TWO padlocks to open the locker, so it’s very possible that was the case this morning.