Thieves snatched a batch of mail-in ballots in the Bay Area earlier this week as California’s slow vote count faces intense scrutiny days after Tuesday’ slowly counts votes in the June 2 primary’s primary elections. It’s unclear from where the mail was stolen, but investigators believe it could have been from a blue collection box or a community mailbox. The unopened ballots were delivered to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in San Jose after being recovered from bins of stolen mail