Posted on 11/09/2018 7:13:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Dozens of boxes filled with mail-in ballots are sitting inside a Miami-area mail distribution center, according to photos obtained by The Miami New Times.
The news outlet noted that the distribution center where the ballots are located is the same one that was evacuated in October after a mail bomb reached the facility.
The news about the ballots comes the same day Miami-Dade County announced it finished counting votes for the midterm elections, which includes hotly-contested Senate and gubernatorial races that have yet to be called.
Two unnamed sources alleged to The New Times that hundreds or thousands of ballots may still be in the distribution center.
A spokesperson for the Elections Department told the news outlet that it was aware of the development. Though the spokesperson added that any ballots not delivered to the Miami-Dade Elections Department by 7 p.m. on Election Day would not be counted.
"We do our best to educate voters that, if you’re voting vote-by-mail, then your ballot had to be at the Elections Department by Tuesday, November 6," she said. "Not everybody mailed back in time."
A spokesperson for the department did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill on Friday.
A local CBS reporter tweeted Friday evening that USPS "has no information to suggest any ballots were not properly handled and provided to local election officials."
The news regarding the ballots comes as election officials in Florida face scrutiny over tight gubernatorial and Senate races.
Gov. Rick Scott (R) leads Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) in their Senate race, while former Rep. Ron DeSantis (R) has a close lead over Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum.
Scott on Thursday filed a lawsuit against election officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties, alleging that they withheld crucial information about how many people had voted in their counties and how many ballots they have left to count.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced on Friday that it has not launched any investigations because it has received no credible allegations of voter fraud.
Is this FAKE NEWS ??
Myth, Murky, and Collins. Not much of a Senate majority.
And Murky could flip.
Well I can’t argue with your statement if we had more it would counteract Collins, Murkowski and I am guessing Romney.
I hate democrats they are so sleazy and how can these Florida officials like Snipe and her crew just flaunt the law and out right lie and steal shameful.
You need to get this out.
I imagine there might be a circumstance where I’d vote by mail, but it would have to be extreme. Too many opportunities for monkey business.
I Have only voted twice by mail. The first time was when I was a freshman in college. The second time was when Ted Cruz was in his 2012 primary runoff for the Republican nomination for the senate seat he now holds. I was going to be out of the country on vacation, so I arranged to get absentee ballots sent to my brother's home so that my Mom and I could vote absentee. I would not vote absentee if there were any way I could vote early in person. I say this even though the County Clerk, who just got reelected to a second 4-year term, of my county in south Texas is a personal friend.
It started with Hillary and nobama, no indictments, no prosecutions, no jail time. If you don’t punish they will keep doing
The article is not very clear-—
Are these ballots that were never mailed out to persons that requested them???
OR are they ballots that ere mailed out, filled out by voters, and mailed back in ???
October seems a bit early to have ‘boxes & boxes. Guess it could depend on the size of ‘the boxes’.
With McShame, Flake and Corker gone, I think the Senate will be just fine.
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