is a request form and then it turns out, oh, no, i'm looking at a ballot with no secrecy even voel lep, you might think, no big deal. just reseal it and count the ballot. no, no, no. maybe you remember the trump campaign and the republican party went to court over just that issue, successfully suing in pennsylvania to have those ballots without secrecy envelopes, so-called naked ballots thrown out. so we do not know for sure, but it seems plausible, perhaps the most likely explanation is that is what may have happened with these, again, nine ballots. clearly someone messed up. these envelopes should not have been opened. and of course ballots should not be randomly thrown away. don't do that. that's bad. but there is zero evidence of anything deliberately criminal happening here at all. and it is completely inappropriate for the u.s. attorney's office to be basically live tweeting their findings as they investigate, including to poll them down and correct them. doj policy calls for keeping voter fraud investigations under wraps to avoid affecting the election outcome. this was an obvio