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.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 hours ago

    Just an FYI, all of these Ballot/Mail Box fires will be pointed to when trump attempts his second coup when he loses. I cant believe I’m casually talking about a future coup attempt in my country…

    This will give a fake appearance of legitimacy to his claims. I’m worried…

    • @Dasus
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      35 hours ago

      And actually burns up Harris votes in the process, making it even easier for him.

      Fuckety fuck fuck.

      • @SimpleMachine
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        22 hours ago

        While this is a shit move by whoever is doing this, it makes virtually no difference for the presidential election. WA electoral votes are winner-takes-all, and always go Dem. A few burned boxes won’t come close in making a difference for president, Biden won by almost a million votes in the last one. It will probably have a decent effect on local elections though.

      • @Aermis
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        24 hours ago

        A lot of my Slavic people live there and they’re voting red. Unless it’s closer to the freeway I guess it’d be bluer there. But still. I wouldn’t think that these are filled to the brim with Harris votes

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          14 hours ago

          Oh well. Any votes destroyed is bad.