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  • When I think of “stuffing” I think of people creating wholly illegitimate ballots, which does not seem to be what happened here.

    That’s exactly what ballot stuffing is and why what these folks are charged with is not ballot stuffing:

    https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_stuffing

    Ballot stuffing or ballot box stuffing is a form of electoral fraud in which a greater number of ballots are cast than the number of people who legitimately voted. The term refers generally to the act of casting illegal votes or submitting more than one ballot per voter when only one ballot per voter is permitted.[1]

    If the absentee ballots they handled were either fabricated or if the voters they were from already voted, then yes it would be “ballot stuffing” but I didn’t see that in the article. Just “mishandling”.

    Still best that absentee ballots are handled properly as to show the voter hasn’t voted in person.