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Woman Reports Finding Election Ballots in Ravine in the Santa Cruz Mountains
NBC Bay Area ^ | November 11, 2022 | Robert Handa

Posted on 11/12/2022 4:29:02 PM PST by grundle

The United States Postal Service and the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters are investigating after a woman reported finding a bag stuffed with valid and completed Santa Clara County ballots in a ravine in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The ballots reportedly ended up in a torn bag off Sugarloaf Road near Highway 17.

Lou and Janet Witkin, two of the people whose ballots were recovered, told NBC Bay Area they dropped their ballots off last Saturday at a post office on Payne Avenue in West San Jose.

"How? How did it get from the mailbox to Santa Cruz?" Janet Witkin said. "Just disappointing to me that something could have transpired."

"I’m interested in the facts," Lou Witkin said. "Wanted to see, well, what was the situation? Was it something that was dropped in transit? What were the circumstances?"

Julie Nieman would like to know as well.

She told NBC Bay Area she was riding her motorcycle to work when she spotted the torn bag and noticed the ballots.

Nieman said she feels like someone was trying to make sure the bag of ballots wouldn’t be found.

"They were trying to make it look like people wouldn’t find them," she said. "That’s the way I saw it. They were dumped over the edge of the road down this deep ravine. It goes pretty far and it’s very steep."

NBC Bay Area reported the discovery to the Registrar of Voters and the postal service late Friday afternoon, so the investigation is in its early stages.

The Registrar of Voters was reluctant to speculate on exactly what happened or how the ballots reportedly ended up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but it closely examined the pictures NBC Bay Area provided.

"Well, it appears in the pictures that there are ballots mixed in with non-election material," Shannon Bushey with the Registrar of Voters said. "So, with seeing that, you would think this may have come from the postal stream somehow."

The Registrar of Voters wanted to remind voters that they can track their ballot by going to its website to make sure it ends up where it’s supposed to.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; california2022; electionfraud; foundballots; lostballots
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1 posted on 11/12/2022 4:29:02 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Arrest her immediately for spreading election disinformation/misinformation.


2 posted on 11/12/2022 4:30:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She is attacking democracy!


3 posted on 11/12/2022 4:31:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: grundle
Want to watch them go from a RAVINE to a 'RABBIT HOLE', just CALL THE FIB!

Or perhaps the FIB will lock them up with Hunter's laptop.

4 posted on 11/12/2022 4:33:22 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: grundle

Did she pick them up?


5 posted on 11/12/2022 4:36:01 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: grundle

Mail with election ballots tossed out by a fine, upstanding US Postal Service worker? Wouldn’t be the first time. Find out who the carriers are on or around this route, then go check their houses. Bet you’ll find a stash.


6 posted on 11/12/2022 4:36:09 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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...the investigation is in its early stages.

We should know the carrier's name in a few years.

7 posted on 11/12/2022 4:36:58 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: grundle

Are folks going to believe the leftist news media panels or their own eyes seeing the pictures?


8 posted on 11/12/2022 4:38:19 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

More no evidence for the No Evidence Exists Mountain Range.

Fraud is ongoing, and the RP couldn’t care less by outward
appearances.

Challenging? No way... (safest elections ever)


9 posted on 11/12/2022 4:40:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: grundle

I wonder who they voted for.


10 posted on 11/12/2022 4:40:56 PM PST by KittyKares
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There is a reason why you’re suppose to go vote in person on Election Day.


11 posted on 11/12/2022 4:41:34 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: grundle

Why are the ballots not in envelopes?


12 posted on 11/12/2022 4:43:04 PM PST by Moe-Patrick (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem)
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To: grundle

Santa Clara: one of the most corrupt counties in CA.


13 posted on 11/12/2022 4:47:53 PM PST by dadfly
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To: grundle

100% sure this is not election related. Mail theft in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties is endemic. Most likely an opportunistic meth head swiped the bag then discarded it after taking out any social security checks or other “valuable”Mail. Those two counties vote 75 and 90% dem anyway, and our side doesn’t play that game.


14 posted on 11/12/2022 4:47:54 PM PST by Skid289
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The Registrar of Voters wanted to remind voters that they can track their ballot by going to its website to make sure it ends up where it’s supposed to.

We have our California mail ballots mailed to us like every other ballot in California before elections.

I get my ballot separately than my wife does. One time I didn’t get a ballot. We notified them on the web and I had a ballot in two mail days, in plenty of time.

We wait until voting day to mark our ballots.

Then, we drive to their office and put the ballots into a box held by a county employee. If the employee and box are on my side of the car, my wife takes a picture of me dropping the ballots into the box held by the employee. If the box person is on the other side of car with the ballot box, I take the pic of the box and employee.

Later that day/evening, we go online and see if our ballots were received.

We learned the above system from a friend, who worked in that office for decades. She felt that more illegal activity was done in the actual voting areas when so called monitors leave for a break or not paying attention.


15 posted on 11/12/2022 4:48:21 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but th e other side is insane!)
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To: grundle

California no less.


16 posted on 11/12/2022 4:52:45 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: grundle
NBC Bay Area reported the discovery to the Registrar of Voters and the postal service late Friday afternoon, so the investigation is in its early stages.

Obviously not repub ballots, else there would be no investigation

17 posted on 11/12/2022 5:01:34 PM PST by Pollard (Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
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To: grundle

“How? How did it get from the mailbox to Santa Cruz??”

maybe start by asking the mailman???


18 posted on 11/12/2022 5:10:23 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: grundle

NEWMAN!


19 posted on 11/12/2022 5:22:11 PM PST by Joann37
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Noting that we have few details about this incident, please consider the following.

Given the "in any way abridged" wording of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), that section a punishment for states where voting-related fraud has occurred with a loss of House seats, I hope that the state loses some seats.

Excerpted from 14A:

Insights welcome.

20 posted on 11/12/2022 5:39:01 PM PST by Amendment10
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