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.

  • @x00z
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    173 months ago

    20 years?

    In many countries you get the death sentence for treason like this.

    • @Fedizen
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      3 months ago

      So like Russia, China, North Korea… maybe these aren’t the best role models.

      I’d much prefer a rehabilitation system where they tried to make the arsonist a productive member of society and maybe bar them from whatever media was instigating the demand he take action.

    • @FinishingDutch
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      33 months ago

      I know, right? This sort of thing would get you a neat title like ‘enemy of democracy’ and a suitably unpleasant execution method. Like getting dropped from an aircraft into the ocean.

      It’s… probably… good the US doesn’t do it. But that’s definitely the sort of crime you should avoid anywhere outside of the US and Europe.

    • @bitjunkie
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      13 months ago

      This used to be one of them.