The completed postal ballot papers - filled in by ex-pat Ecuadorians living in Spain - were meant to decide the future powers of the country's president Rafael Correa.
But instead of being sent to the South American state, DHL delivered the votes 7,000 miles away to herb farm Prymat, in Jastrzebie-Zdro, south west Poland.
"We quite often get herb samples from Spain, and so we weren't surprised to get the package - until we opened it," said Prymat spokesman Jastrzebie-Zdro.
DHL in Spain would not comment on the botch-up.
The ballots have since been delivered to the Ecuador embassy in Warsaw and readdressed to the Ecuador election tribunal.
Of course, hoe many of those missing CD's went to Poland (or anywhere else for that matter 
).