Free Republic

SAN FRANCISCO -- The director of elections in San Francisco says a polling inspector made off with up to 75 ballots, a voting roster and other election materials in a bizarre heist. John Arntz said Tuesday that around 4 p.m. Pacific a polling inspector broke into the ballot-counting machine, scooped up the ballots and stole a memory pack that records information from the ballots. He also stole the cell phone of a teenage poll worker. Arntz says police and sheriff's officials know the poll worker's name and are investigating the theft. A call to a police spokesman after business hours...