In our county, there’d be sheriff’s deputies out looking for election personnel not reporting back to the elections office with ballots.
I don’t have a problem with one split party collection/courier team, with a sheriff deputy along for security, out making several drop box collections, taking them out of the drop box and inserting them into a sealed separate transfer container, documenting the pickup info, and making the next stop with all being turned in that same day. Cell phone checking in with the elections office at each stop and movement to the next stop.
This was planned malfeasance..................