Ballots found in dumpster at Golden Gardens

We begin with King County Elections reporting tonight that two bins of mail were found tossed in a dumpster at Golden Gardens and those bins some undelivered ballots. They say the U.S. Postal Service has been notified. Fox 13's Jennifer Dowling is live now with the details from Golden Gardens. Good evening. The King County Elections Office says that regular mail was mixed in with the ballots and they say that regular mail is typically what thieves are targeting in these types of cases. We talked to some folks here at Golden Gardens for their take on this fine tonight. Take a listen. That's horrible. That's like un-American. The King County Elections Office says ballots have already been reissued to the impacted voters and the office has reported this to the U.S. Postal Service so they can start an investigation. The Elections Office says unfortunately mail theft happens and does not seem to slow down for election season. Staff in the Elections Office says they tend to hear about a handful of these incidents during which ballots are tossed after a mail theft in each big election. The office says law enforcement has also told them, as is evidenced by the fact that they were left behind, that ballots are typically not the target in mail theft. Park goer Kyle Grant feels it's unusual it happened here at the gardens because he says the park is typically full of people. During basically all times of the day, there's quite a bit of people here. So I don't know why you choose, I guess they would choose this park because you can't pin it on a certain person really unless there's video footage of them doing it probably put some cameras in here then it's unclear which dumpster at the park the mail was put in we've reached out to King County elections for more information on that they say they don't have that level of detail at this time if you find ballots somewhere the King County Elections office asks that you take photos of each envelope and share those with elections at kingcounty.gov along with information about where they were found that can help the office both reissue ballots to impacted voters and report the incident to USPS with as much detail as possible. The office also says any voter who hasn't received their ballot yet should give them a call at 206-296-8683. There are other options to get replacement ballots as well. You can do that online. Reporting live at Golden Gardens, Jennifer Dowling, FOX 13 News.