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.

Liewer said there are social media claims that the ballots were in Fountain Hills. She said that is inaccurate.

Liewer said a bipartisan team of election staff have taken custody of the boxes to ensure chain-of-custody protocols were followed. The ballot envelopes will now go through

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