Absentee ballots found in a ditch in Wisconsin

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Three trays of mail, including absentee ballots, were found in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin Tuesday morning, the Washington Examiner reports. Police officers from the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office found the trays near Appleton International Airport and took the mail to the post office. Wisconsin is a critical battleground state in the 2020 presidential election.

Confirming the discovery of the mail in a ditch, United States Postal Service (USPS) spokesman Bob Sheehan told WLUK: “The United States Postal Inspection Service immediately began investigating, and we reserve further comment on this matter until that is complete.”

On Monday a federal judge ordered the Postal Service to prioritize election mail. Thousands of ballots in Wisconsin’s primary remained uncounted as they were not discovered until the day of the election, the Washington Examiner reports.

Issuing Monday’s order, US District Judge Victor Marrero said: “The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted.”

“Conflicting, vague, and ambivalent managerial signals could also sow substantial doubt about whether the USPS is up to the task, whether it possesses the institutional will power and commitment to its historical mission, and so to handle the exceptional burden associated with a profoundly critical task in our democratic system, that of collecting and delivering election mail a few weeks from now,” Marrero explained.

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