Nearly 100 stolen special election ballots found in Sacramento County homeless encampment, officials say

SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — Dozens of stolen, unvoted ballots for the special election on Proposition 50 were found in a Sacramento County homeless encampment on Wednesday, according to the sheriff's office.

Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesperson for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, said deputies were in the area of Elder Creek and Mayhew roads to clean up a camp in the area when they found 99 ballots and other election-related materials among a large amount of other mail.

"Obviously saw the urgency, grabbed all those items first, got the ballots and stuff returned to the voter registration," Gandhi said.

He said deputies secured the ballots and election mail and returned them to the Sacramento County Department of Voter Registration and Elections.



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