Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigatingVANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report - with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire.
Investigators believe the incident is connected to two other arson incidents in Portland and SW Washington
KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver shortly after 4 a.m., where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a drop-off ballot box.
Our photographer Evan Bell captured grey smoke steadily billowing out of the Park and Ride ballot box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center near Southeast 162nd Avenue.
Multiple police units were in the area, and the ballot box was cordoned off by police tape as it continued to smoke.
Update while typing this up...
Incendiary device starts fire inside SE Portland ballot box: Only 3 ballots damaged PORTLAND, Ore. — An investigation is underway after an incendiary device was discovered inside a ballot box in Portland early Monday morning.
On Oct. 28, at approximately 3:30 a.m., officers were sent to reports of a fire at a ballot box located in the 1000 block of Southeast Morrison Street.
By the time officers arrived, security personnel in the area had already extinguished the fire.
Investigators say an incendiary device had been placed inside the ballot box, igniting the fire.
The Portland Police Bureau's Explosive Disposal Unit responded to the scene and successfully cleared the device.
Multnomah County later said fire suppressant inside the ballot box protected virtually all the ballots. Only three ballots suffered damage, and Elections will contact those three voters, via unique identifiers on their ballot envelopes, so they can receive replacement ballots.
Well, we know who will be blamed, but how many conservative terrorists stuck around WA in general after the summer of love?
