WASHINGTON: A top federal prosecutor in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday said his office was investigating a small number of military ballots cast for President Donald Trump that had been “discarded.”
In a highly unusual public statement, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, David Freed, said his office and the FBI was probing incidents that occurred in Luzerne County, which is located in northeastern Pennsylvania and includes Wilkes-Barre.
Nine military ballots had been “improperly opened” by elections staff and “discarded,” Freed said in a letter to a county election official released on Thursday.
Seven of the nine ballots were found outside their official envelopes, Freed said, adding that those ballots were all cast for Trump.
“The majority of the recovered…