While the following occurred in King County, it can also happen in Snohomish County.
Sammamish Police report that voting ballots have been caught up in mail theft in the area. The police department does not think that the target of the theft was the ballots. Mail thieves were probably looking for personal information such as credit card account numbers, but the ballots just happened to be in the boxes that the mail thieves broke into.
Ballots were not opened and did not appear to have been tampered with.
A Sammamish Police spokesperson noted that many neighborhoods do not have locking mailboxes and that mail thieves target areas without locking mailboxes.
The beauty of mail in ballots is the convenience of filling out your ballot then putting it in the mail for delivery to the county. However, mail theft does have the potential of disenfranchising voters, even if that disenfranchisement is incidental to the theft.
You can protect your mail in ballot by taking one of the following actions,
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Use a locking mailbox
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Take it to a Postal Service blue
mailbox
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Take it to a nearby Ballot Drop Box
KING TV:
South Snohomish County Crime Watch:
https://ssnoccrimewatch.blogspot.com/2020/10/mail-in-ballots-delivering-your-ballot.html
For more information about voting, Drop Box locations, and other
election subjects, check out one of the following links,
Washington State:
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/
Snohomish County:
https://snohomishcountywa.gov/1986/Accessible-Voting-Information
King County:
https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections.aspx
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