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1 Colorado Investigating Alleged Attempt To Intercept Mail Ballots

While the torching of some ballots in Arizona doesn’t appear to have been politically motivated, Colorado authorities are investigating an incident where at least 12 mail ballots seem to have been intercepted before they reached the voters they were sent to. The ballots were reportedly filled out and mailed to the county clerk in Mesa County according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. The scheme was discovered after some of the voters received notification that their ballots had been processed or needed to be corrected because of a discrepancy with their signatures. The Secretary of State’s office didn’t say which presidential candidate the ballots were marked for.

2 Suspect Arrested For Setting Mail Collection Box On Fire, Damaging Ballots

Around 20 ballots were damaged in Phoenix when someone lit a fire inside a drive-up collection mailbox at a United States Postal Service station yesterday morning, and the Phoenix Police Department has already made an arrest. The suspect, 35-year-old Dieter Klofkorn, was booked on a felony count of arson of property. Klofkorn allegedly admitted to setting the fire because “he wanted to be arrested,” and said there was no political motivation for the crime. The Arizona Secretary of State’s office said yesterday that it believes the fire only destroyed five ballots, but said that number could change as they continue to investigate.

3 McDonald's Says Supplier Taylor Farms Is Source Of Onions Linked To E. Coli Outbreak

McDonald’s said yesterday that the supplier of the onions suspected to be connected to the outbreak of E. coli has been identified. The company said that Taylor Farms supplied the slivered onions that the CDC and the FDA are focusing on as the source of the contamination. Taylor Farms announced a recall of four raw onion products because of “potential E. coli contamination,” and recommended that customers like restaurants stop using the affected products as soon as possible and destroy them. As of Wednesday, at least 49 people had been affected by E. coli infections linked to the outbreak. Yesterday, Burger King and Yum Brands made the call to pull fresh onions from some of its locations. Some KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell locations have pulled onions “out of an abundance of caution,” but Yum didn’t give information about the specific locations affected. Burger King said that 5-percent of its locations received onions from a Taylor Farms Colorado facility and were asked to dispose of them two days ago.


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