MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — Maricopa County election workers discovered Friday morning two sealed boxes of ballots that were mistakenly not returned on the night of Tuesday's election.

Workers were inspecting equipment returned from voting locations in the West Valley and found two sealed boxes containing 2,300 ballot envelopes, according to Deputy Elections Director for Communications Jennifer Liewer. Poll workers apparently placed the boxes by mistake in a blue drop box instead of returning them on Nov. 4.

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap claimed in a social media post that the ballots were from Fountain Hills. Liewer said the claim was inaccurate.

12News has learned the claim was based on an apparent misunderstanding.

Heap, a first-term Republican, has been feuding with the Marico

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