Dauphin County DA alerted to large batch of ballots dumped in drop box

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — The Dauphin County District Attorney is investigating an unusually large batch of mail delivered to the county election office last week. Through investigation it was determined to be delivered overnight to a county drop box by a USPS postal employee as seen on surveillance footage.

County commissioner Mike Pries said the large batch is considered to be “unusual activity.” He said it is not believed to be nefarious.

At this time they are directing the postal worker not to drop large batches into county drop boxes again.

When reached for comment, Commissioner Pries clarified that the large batch was dumped at a county drop box.

According to Dauphin County District Attorney Francis Chardo, a number of ballots and voter registrations were found in the large batch. He said the matter warranted no further investigation at this time.