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180 boxes of uncounted ballots were found in Puerto Rico, just over a week after election day, according to Fox News.
BREAKING NEWS – Majority of Puerto Rican Voters Say YES to Statehood. Official election night results released by @CEEPuertoRico State Elections Commission show that (with 89% of vote counted) 52.2% of voters favored statehood in “YES” or “NO” question. https://t.co/VZqKQShX2C pic.twitter.com/E2tyOUcGeQ
— PR51st (@PuertoRico51st) November 4, 2020
Roberto Iván Aponte, the electoral commissioner of the Puerto Rican Independence Party revealed that they do not have knowledge of exaclt how many ballots are in the boxes.
“We don’t know exactly how much is in there.”
“If it had been a smaller amount, it would have been carried out without any problem, because on Election Day there was no problem,” Aponte said.
“The big problem is how this early voting issue was handled.”
“Trust the transparency of the process, that all the votes here are going to be counted,” commission president Francisco Rosado Colomer explained.
“Your vote has weight and is valid for the commission.”
More from Fox News:
At least 180 boxes of votes from all over the island have been found, election officials said Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported.
The Absentee and Early Vote Administrative Board is now in possession of the ballots, he said.
The Puerto Rico State Elections Commission said the problem happened because of the higher number of voters casting their ballots by mail – more than 227,000.
