Florida Ballots Fall Off Truck Due to 'Human Error': What We Know

Asealed bin and bag with hundreds of Florida early voting ballots fell out of a Miami-Dade County truck on Monday night, according to the county's elections department.

The incident occurred due to "human error," when the driver did not lock the back of the truck ads they drove off, Miami-Dade elections officials said in a statement Tuesday. The employee has since been fired. Residents found the bin and bag of ballots and brought it to the police. Officials confirmed that "all items were accounted for."

"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 Miami-Dade Elections Department wrote in a statement Tuesday. "While unintentional, the elections department has a zero tolerance for error and therefore the employee was terminated."

The ballots were retrieved Monday night on a road near Florida's Turnpike in Cutler Bay, according to a video posted by Only in Dade on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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