Mail thieves get ahold of election ballots in the South Bay
Mail thieves got ahold of election ballots in the South Bay early Monday morning, prompting a warning from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Vote counting continues at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters' office in San Jose, but NBC Bay Area learned that more than two dozen ballots were brought in by postal inspectors after thieves got to them.
According to the Postal Inspection Service, the unopened ballots were delivered directly to the Registrar of Voters after being recovered from bins of stolen mail.
"It was about 29 ballots," said Matt Moreles of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. "They were all sealed inside their return envelopes. So we were able to signature check them and verified they were valid and then we did count them."
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