Philadelphia voting machine controls STOLEN from warehouse days after pro-Trump ballots found trashed in PA
OFFICIALS are scrambling to investigate after voting machine controls were stolen from a Philadelphia warehouse, days after pro-Trump ballots were found trashed.
USB drives, along with an employee's laptop, were taken some time this week, the city commissioner’s office confirmed on Wednesday, as reported by KYW-TV.
A spokesperson for Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the company that makes the voting machines, said the USB drives are made to prevent tampering, reported.
ES&S told KYW-TV in respect to the stolen laptop, that it is "not used to program the election or interact with USBs used in elections.”
The theft was discovered just days in the same swing state of
Of nine ballots that were found discarded, seven were pro-.
The other two ballots had been resealed by elections staff, prosecuting Attorney David Freed said in a statement.
Federal prosecutors and the FBI are now working to investigate the incident.
The Department of Justice has also ordered the state's county to change its ballot practices, reported.