A Miami-Dade elections worker was fired after a sealed bin and a sealed bag of ballots fell out of their truck and were discovered on the side of the road, according to the county’s elections department.

The elections department called it a case of human error. The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out, containing already voted ballots from early voting.

The sealed containers with the ballots inside had already been scanned and tabulated at the South Dade Regional Library’s early voting site on Monday, according to the Miami Herald.

A driver spotted the bin and bag with the ballots near 211 Street and the Turnpike Extension in Cutler Bay, according to a video posted by OnlyInDade.

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    Worker is not named in the story. Yeah yeah, innocent until blah blah, I ain’t got that kinda of time. NAME this worker cmon.

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      Nah. Nobody needs mob justice for this. Mob justice isn’t justice at all. It’s just crowd funded tyranny.

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        Think Trump fuckfaces don’t already have me and everyone queer on their mob justice lists? Do you think them saying “deported” means “dropped off at the border”? The tyranny is theirs and it came for me first.

        There’s never gonna be a Nuremberg for this, you realize.

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          Yeah I’m starting to lean towards burn these mother fuckers and their families to prevent the cancer spreading stage of traitors. Talking some Sherman shit, they try to dismantle our democracy? They forfeit the rights protected by said democracy. Just sayin.

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      If you’re in a swing state I encourage you to find a way to vote early, waiting for election day is an unnecessary risk. (A lot of places have in-person early voting, for example.)

      If you’re not in a swing state, admittedly it matters a lot less what you do.

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        Yeah I’m in Ohio. We have two important votes, one of which (issue 1) is dead in the water because Frank LaRose maliciously changed the wording. But our attitude is that it’s not unlikely our state will try to throw out the early ballots.

        Honestly, I don’t know the best course of action. This election is going really badly in regards to the overt interference from right wing authoritarians.

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          I think being afraid early ballots won’t be counted is just playing into their hand because it prevents you from voting early - they probably want as many people to wait for election day as possible so people will bail on extremely long lines, they can try to shut down polling locations, they probably hope that people have emergencies or other issues that prevent them from voting, etc.

          This is just classic voter suppression.

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          I share your anger about LaRose’s blatant attempts to sabotage Issue 1, but that didn’t stop me from voting early and in-person. The line looked long, but moved quickly and I was on my way home in 30 or 40 minutes.

          We only lose if we don’t vote! If you can vote early, I would encourage you to do so!

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      Because mailing in your ballot and verifying it was counted through the online portal is hard? I don’t understand. I voted last week and my vote is already counted as were these ballots. Nothing was lost.

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      2000 was still worse, as presidential elections go. The race wasn’t decided until December 12, 2000, only after the Brooks Bros Riot, and SCOTUS basically saying “Stop counting, Bush wins.”

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        Roger Stone was behind that madness, as well as J6 – he was so confident in their J6 plans, he had a legitimate documentary team following him that day as they did their ‘war room’ fuckery at the Willard hotel, and some of their footage was used at the J6 congressional hearings.

        And good news, everybody! Stone is still walking free and doing more of the same fuckery as we speak! He’s still, to this day, a main operative behind trump’s campaign. Will be wild!

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          Roger Stone was convicted of his fuckery around congressional inquiries in 2020, seven felonies, and Trump commuted his sentence in July 2020.

          Then in December 2020, Trump pardoned Stone, along with Manafort and Charles Kushner (father of Jared Kushner).

          I’m not sure how it’s very cool and very legal to be able to pardon people who did crimes for you, but there you have it.

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        The 2000 election was decided illegally. Dems should have done a nationwide French-style full protest with complete work stoppage and vandalism.

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          The failure of FPTP was laid bare for all to see. Anyone who doesn’t support RCV after that is either a fool or already bought.

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    Lmao. At least they were already counted. Now, if it comes down to a 2000 style election and these need to be recounted for awarding the electoral votes? Yikes.

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      Unfortunately, Florida isn’t even considered a swing state anymore. The only way this becomes an issue is if somehow Harris wins the state and it’s all because of Miami-Dade cancelling out most of the rest of the state.

      Harris winning Florida, 0 to slim chance. Miami-Dade being the reason, impossible.

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      They were already counted until some buffoon goes “Oh noe this is fraudulent, you need to go recount all the paper copies. Oh what do you mean you lost a bunch of paper copies? Those votes are invalid now, too bad teehee”

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