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A truck driver who contracts with the United States Postal Service (USPS) to deliver mail between Pennsylvania and New York said something strange happened one day during his route.

“On October 21st, when I arrived for my usual route in Bethpage, New York, an expeditor made three references to ballots that were to be loaded into my trailer, including saying...'you have ballots today' and even showing me a piece of registered mail and saying 'someone really wanted their ballot to count,’” Jesse Morgan, of Lancaster, said during a press conference for The Amistad Project.

Morgan said he saw 24 gaylords, which are large cardboard boxes, containing mail-in ballots loaded into his trailer.

"These Gaylords contain plastic trays, I call them totes, but trays will work, of ballots stacked on top of each other," Morgan said. "All the envelopes were the same size — I could see the envelopes had handwritten ... return addresses."

Morgan said he didn’t think much of the ballots. He then drove to Harrisburg, but instead of being allowed to offload at one of seven docks like usual, he was made to wait for six hours in the yard.

“After waiting six hours, I went inside to figure out what's going on,” Morgan said. “I was told to wait for the transportation supervisor. This is also weird — 16 months I've been doing this I haven't ever talked to the transportation supervisor for United States Postal Service.”

Morgan said he typically talks to an expeditor, not the transportation supervisor. He said he was told not to offload in Harrisburg and was told to continue on to Lancaster, which made no sense to him.

“I knew the ballots were loaded for Harrisburg,” Morgan said. “And that if I was to go to Lancaster they would have to off-unload my ballots in Lancaster to take off Lancaster stuff to put the ballots back on the trailer to send it back to Harrisburg.”

Morgan said he asked for his ticket, which is what he receives as proof regarding the mail that was delivered. He also asked for a late slip since he had been stuck there for six hours, but he said the transportation supervisor refused to give him either.

Morgan said he left and went back to Lancaster and the following day, the trailer he always uses was gone.

Phill Kline, the director of the Thomas More Society, said Morgan gets slips everywhere he goes as proof that he’s there. There are seals and docks that are scanned and each of the pallets are also scanned.

Kline said everything was normal until Oct. 21. He said the route and actions are always the same, except for that day.