The elections department called it a case of human error.

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.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    482·
    2 days ago

    How do you just forget to lock the back of a truck full of ballots? There’s so much weird shit going on right now it’s hard to tell what’s intentional and what isn’t.

    • delgato@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      I worked in geotech consulting and there is one piece of radioactive equipment used for soil testing that requires a certification to operate and transport in a vehicle, called a nuclear density/moisture gauge. Every year there’s an article that makes the news where a technician forgets to strap down the equipment so it doesn’t fall out the truck or not locking the box that holds the equipment and someone steals it. People really are stupid and lots of companies that give out work trucks don’t teach employees basic safety especially when towing or transporting fragile things.

    • IHawkMike@lemmy.world
      162·
      2 days ago

      Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

      – George Carlin

      Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

      – Hanlon’s razor

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        51·
        2 days ago

        Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

        Also, Hanlon’s razor just means that in normal circumstances stupidity is the simplest and most likely explanation, but malice is still a possibility, and these are far from normal circumstances… you’ve got a significant portion of the population which is both extremely stupid and extremely malicious…

      • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        I’m assuming it was a box truck with a roller door (like a garage door), and by locked, they might have meant latched. Forgetting to latch the door is a really easy mistake when in a rush or otherwise preoccupied and when the truck hits a bump, the door could easily roll up.