https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/12/santa-clara-county-ballots-found-discarded-in-mountain-ravine-investigation-launched/

The United States Postal Service and the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters have launched an investigation to determine how a dozen or more Santa Clara County ballots wound up in a ravine in the Santa Cruz mountains, according to communications officer Michael Borja of the registrar’s office.

The ballots were discovered in a pile of other mail, discarded in the woods near Sugarloaf Road off Highway 17, Borja said. The ballots appear to have been removed from the mail and not one of the county’s designated ballot dropboxes.