Officials combed through a Minneapolis church where many college students voted and a warehouse where ballots were stored in search of a packet containing 133 missing ballots.
"It's just one packet, it's not very alarming," Ritchie, a Democrat, said in an interview with Reuters. The canvassing board can accept the precinct's original election night vote total as an alternative, he added.
"It doesn't surprise me there are a few bumps along the way," he said.
There are expectations when we vote. That we know what we are doing, that we vote for only one candidate, that we follow the procedures proscribed by the voting in the given state/precinct.
Everyone votes on November 3rd or 4th, and all the votes are collected by the person given the responsibility. All votes are put into one container or bin or box and ALL the votes in that box/container are counted, unless otherwise proven to violate standards.
we do not accept ballots found a month later in a box in a church. We do not accept ballots found in a trunk, a month later. We do not accept any ballots after the fact, because we value the system and the process of voting on November 4th and we do not wish to involve clear voting fraud into the system we have created to protect the voting process.
Unless you are in Florida or Minnesota.