Minneapolis-area officials took swift action by firing an election worker who left several boxes of mail-in ballots unattended while dropping them off at an election office. The incident, which occurred outside Edina City Hall, raised concerns about the security of mail-in voting.
Despite the circulating photo showing the employee's car with an open trunk containing nearly a dozen ballot boxes, officials from Hennepin County confirmed that there was no evidence of tampering while the ballots were unattended. Surveillance footage released on YouTube revealed that the ballots remained untouched during the nine-minute period they were left unattended.
