State Investigates After Poll Watcher Says Ballot Shredding Captured on Video During 2022 Election Night

State officials are investigating a claim that ballots were shredded on election night last year in Carbon County. Carbon County poll watcher Chip Bennett and his wife, Lisa Bennett, originally filed a complaint locally, but it is now in the hands of the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation, according to KTVQ. Chip Bennett said that a piece of surveillance video appeared to show Carbon County Elections Administrator Crystal Roascio in the process of shredding documents that the Bennetts believe were ballots. “We see our election administrator shredding what appears to us to be absentee ballots,” Lisa Bennett said, noting that…