Woman Reports Finding Election Ballots in Ravine in the Santa Cruz Mountains

(Source: NBC Bay Area)

The United States Postal Service and the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters are investigating after a woman reported finding a bag stuffed with valid and completed Santa Clara County ballots in a ravine in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The ballots reportedly ended up in a torn bag off Sugarloaf Road near Highway 17.

Lou and Janet Witkin, two of the people whose ballots were recovered, told NBC Bay Area they dropped their ballots off last Saturday at a post office on Payne Avenue in West San Jose.

“How? How did it get from the mailbox to Santa Cruz?” Janet Witkin said. “Just disappointing to me that something could have transpired.”

“I’m interested in the facts,” Lou Witkin said. “Wanted to see, well, what was the situation? Was it something that was dropped in transit? What were the circumstances?”

Julie Nieman would like to know as well.