Florida Election Worker Fired after Completed Ballots Found by the Roadside – Trump Leads by a Wide Margin
Florida completed ballots found on the highway Credit: X/Only in Dade
Florida’s Miami-Dade County Elections Department has fired an election worker after containers of completed ballots were found abandoned on the highway. Former President Donald Trump leads by far in Florida and could win by 9 points (as per the polls), something not seen in 36 years.
The elections board claimed that the election worker forgot to lock the van and “as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out, containing already voted ballots from early voting.”
The misplaced ballot containers were discovered by a motorist at Turnpike extension in Cutler Bay and handed over to the police. A video posted by Only in Dade X account shows the bin and the sealed bag lying in the middle of the highway and the motorist leaving the car to collect them.
“Thankfully, this was observed in real time by upstanding residents who did the right thing and turned the bin and the bag into the police department.”
Inspection of the ballot containers found no evidence of damage or tampering, thus unlikely to have fallen into the wrong hands.
“Upon arrival at the police department, elections staff verified all seals were intact and nothing was tampered with or damaged,” the elections department said in a statement. “Once at Elections Headquarters, all items were accounted for and all seals were once again verified.”
In addition, the county’s elections supervisor Christina White told The Miami Herald that the ballots were already scanned and tabulated at a South Dade Regional Library. Nonetheless, the elections body asserted there was no room for error and terminated the employee.
Trump could break a 36-year record in Florida.
According to A Florida Atlantic University survey, Trump leads Florida by nine points, a margin the state has not witnessed since 1988.
The survey indicates that 53% of Florida voters would select Trump, compared to 44 percent who would prefer the current Vice President and Democratic flag-bearer, Kamala Harris.
Trump’s share increased from 50% in August 2024, barely 3 months to the elections, while Harris’ fell from 47%. Trump’s Florida lead is cemented by Hispanic voters, of whom 55 percent support the former president compared to 44 percent who prefer the Democratic Party candidate. Subsequently, Republicans have everything to lose should anything interfere with the polls.
Additionally, Trump’s popularity in Florida continued to increase since he joined politics in 2016 and won the state by 49%. In 2020, he extended his lead by another two percentage points, winning by 51.2%.
However, the widest margin between presidential candidates in the Sunshine State was in 1988 when Republican George H.W. Bush won by 60.9% compared to Democrat Michael Dukakis’ 38.5%.
