Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon
apnews.com
Incendiary devices have been set off at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland, Oregon, and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy."

The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
    152·
    17 hours ago

    I was actually surprised that more ballot boxes weren’t being firebombed; I didn’t know they had fire suppression systems and am glad to hear it (and also slightly shocked that they’re necessary; chalk another point on the board for we’ve failed as a society and as a species).

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      The armed forces have been voting by mail for decades (over a century).

      I love the cognitive dissonance of “patriots” who mouth platitudes for those who’ve served, while actively working against the same mechanisms for civilians. Brain morons.