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Hundreds of thousands of pages of voter documents were found scattered along a highway in Hillsborough County, Florida, Monday morning. Two empty cardboard boxes were found near the documents, suggesting they may have fallen from a truck or been purposely dumped along the highway.

The documents, which filled nine plastic bags when collected, contain names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliation of Hillsborough County voters.

It appears, however, that the documents aren't the county's voter registration applications since they also contain the voters' registration numbers, precincts where they are registered to vote and a check box next to each voter's name indicating their choice of Barack Obama or John McCain in the presidential election and whether they need a ride on Election Day, according to the Tampa Tribune. The latter would not be on a county voter record.

A spokeswoman for the county elections office suggested the documents might belong to a candidate or party that obtained voter information from the county, presumably for get-out-the-vote efforts.

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