Ballot Drop Boxes Set on Fire in Washington, Oregon

It seems like these people are just against elections in general. Or maybe they’re against mail-in voting.

Maybe they just want to watch democracy burn?

Notably, no one can burn ballots if you do same-day voting in the normal way that every other country does it.

Washington Examiner:

Ballots sitting inside drop boxes in Oregon and Washington were burned early Monday morning in suspected arson attacks.

Police said the two incidents are “very similar” to a third incident that took place in the area earlier this month.

“We don’t know the motive behind this — these — acts. It sounds like a series of three at this point,” officials with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said. “We do know that acts like this are targeted and intentional.”

In Portland, Oregon, police responded to an incendiary device that was ignited at around 3:30 a.m. Pacific time. Security personnel in the area had already extinguished the fire by the time responders arrived at the scene.

“I’ve been with Multnomah County Elections for 16 years. I’ve been in elections for 22 years. This is the first time any incident has occurred, as far as I’m aware, at the elections building or in any position I’ve ever held,” Tim Scott from the Multnomah County Elections Division office said.

The ballot drop box in Oregon has since been replaced.

Just north of the Oregon border in Vancouver, Washington, officials responded to smoke coming out of a ballot drop box, in which hundreds of ballots were discovered to be burned at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific time.

The Clark County auditor told KATU the last ballot pickup at that location was 8 a.m. Sunday, which means hundreds of ballots were inside at the time of the fire. The county said there were likely only a few ballots that could be salvaged.

Voters who dropped off their ballots at this location are casting votes for one of the tightest House contests in the country this cycle. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), a centrist Democrat, is seeking reelection in the Republican-leaning district. She is running against Republican Joe Kent, whom she beat by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2022.

Oh, it’s Joe Kent again.

Sadly, I know who he is.

Similar incident happened in Arizona a few days ago