Officials say 'no evidence of tampering' after mail ballots left unattended near Minneapolis

CNN —Minneapolis-area officials swiftly fired an election worker who left several boxes of mail-in ballots unattended while dropping them off at an election office Friday.

A photo of the employee’s car outside Edina City Hall — with an open trunk containing nearly a dozen boxes of ballots — circulated Friday on social media. Local Republican Party officials and Donald Trump supporters with large online followings shared the image and used the lapse to question the security of mail-in voting.

Officials from Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis and the neighboring suburb of Edina, said in a statement Friday that there was “no evidence of tampering” while the ballots were unattended.

They posted 18 minutes of surveillance footage to YouTube, showing that nobody interfered with the ballots while they were unattended with an open trunk in the parking lot for roughly nine minutes.



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