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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...

Ad South Carolina election ballots reportedly ended up in Maryland this week, after mail-in voting for the Palmetto State’s June 9 primary has already begun, according to local news reports. South Carolina election officials may cut ties with the company they used, Minnesota printer SeaChange, over the mix-up after about 20 Charleston County absentee ballots were found outside the state, the reports say. Election officials say this isn’t the first absentee ballot issue they’ve had with the company, which prints and mails ballots for 13 South Carolina counties

IOWA CITY - Absentee vote counters in Johnson County will meet Monday in Iowa City to review 186 General Election ballots that have been found after their final vote count. The Absentee Ballot Board says the ballots were discovered Friday with election materials being prepared for storage. Some were found in boxes while others were found in a folder in the county auditor's office. Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.______________ More details here: 186 ballots found after votes counted