Dear Sir: FL polling stations -- at least in my county -- have two boxes with locks. When voting is over, up to a dozen voluntary poll workers lock the used and unused ballots in a small box. They lock it up and two of them must drive the box to a central collection office. Other polling station equipment is left at the polling site -- the vote machines, office supplies, and such are left in the polling place -- be it a school room, the American Legion Hall, or a church site. The office supplies are to be put in a large locked box -- left at the polling place for subsequent pickup by reps of the County Supervisor of Elections. Finding a large, locked box in the polling place is quite natural. It contains no ballots -- only pens, staple machines, posters and such. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'