(The Center Square) – Maricopa County voters are being contacted after roughly 20 mail-in ballots were destroyed in a mailbox fire.

The Phoenix Fire Department received a report around 1 a.m. of mailbox fire outside a U.S. Postal Office in the area of 3900 North 7th Avenue. The fire was put out and after the mail was recovered, it was discovered that some of the mail-in ballots in the mailbox were completely damaged.