Translation. Some government drone did not know or care that the lock on the ballot box was broken. His task was to set the box out. He set it out. Because, bureaucracy.
They arrested a 26 year-old mail carrier in my town for dumping mail (including blank ballots, which were mailed to everyone in NJ) in a neighboring town; federal charges coming.
There has been a real work slowdown by the USPS in my area for a few months now (not due to the Red Chinese virus, but starting more recently); it started before the election season but is certainly continuing into it. I don’t know why environmentalists don’t target junk mail; we could save a lot of trees and eliminate a lot of gubmint jobs without it.