The team at Mesa County is reexamining every ballot return envelope that has been received at this point. The investigation into the situation is ongoing.”

Colorado officials say at least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural county and then sent in with fraudulent votes.

Colorado authorities are investigating an incident in which at least 12 mail ballots appear to have been intercepted before reaching voters intended to receive them, according to a statement from the state's top elections official on Thursday.

The strain of E. coli involved in the current outbreak is harmless to cattle but can cause severe symptoms in humans.

The lawsuit, filed in Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois on Wednesday, alleges that Eric Stelly ate food from a Greeley, Colorado McDonald’s on Oct. 4 and tested positive for E. coli a few days later. Colorado health officials later told Stelly that his E. coli was connected to the McDonald’s outbreak, the lawsuit said.

This is the first lawsuit over an outbreak linked to McDonald’s, which has left one dead and dozens sick. A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others.