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.
Arrest her immediately for spreading election disinformation/misinformation.
She is attacking democracy!
Or perhaps the FIB will lock them up with Hunter's laptop.
Did she pick them up?
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.
We should know the carrier's name in a few years.
Are folks going to believe the leftist news media panels or their own eyes seeing the pictures?
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)
I wonder who they voted for.
There is a reason why you’re suppose to go vote in person on Election Day.
Why are the ballots not in envelopes?
Santa Clara: one of the most corrupt counties in CA.
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.
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.
California no less.
Obviously not repub ballots, else there would be no investigation
“How? How did it get from the mailbox to Santa Cruz??”
maybe start by asking the mailman???
NEWMAN!
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:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Insights welcome.
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