shockedcanadian
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Wow. What is going on America?
Surely you are telling me in this day in age, when Americans use computer voting that there would be multiple cameras on these ballot box locations and we will see an arrest within the hour, right? According to the article there are cameras so whoever did this must be outed and charged with a serious crime.
Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
The Portland Police Bureau reported that officers and firefighters responded to a fire in one ballot drop box at about 3:30 a.m. PT and determined an incendiary device had been placed inside. Multnomah County elections director Tim Scott said a fire suppressant inside the drop box protected nearly all the ballots; only three were damaged, and his office planned to contact those voters to help them obtain replacements.
A few hours later, across the Columbia River in Vancouver, television crews captured footage of smoke pouring out of a ballot box at a transit centre. Vancouver is the biggest city in Washington's third congressional district, the site of what is expected to be one of the closest U.S. House races in the country, between first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent.
"I hope the perpetrator of this reprehensible act is quickly apprehended — and local and federal law enforcement have my full support in working to keep our democratic process safe and secure," Gluesenkamp Perez said in a statement.
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There were surveillance cameras that covered the drop box and surrounding area, he said.
Surely you are telling me in this day in age, when Americans use computer voting that there would be multiple cameras on these ballot box locations and we will see an arrest within the hour, right? According to the article there are cameras so whoever did this must be outed and charged with a serious crime.
Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
The Portland Police Bureau reported that officers and firefighters responded to a fire in one ballot drop box at about 3:30 a.m. PT and determined an incendiary device had been placed inside. Multnomah County elections director Tim Scott said a fire suppressant inside the drop box protected nearly all the ballots; only three were damaged, and his office planned to contact those voters to help them obtain replacements.
A few hours later, across the Columbia River in Vancouver, television crews captured footage of smoke pouring out of a ballot box at a transit centre. Vancouver is the biggest city in Washington's third congressional district, the site of what is expected to be one of the closest U.S. House races in the country, between first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent.
"I hope the perpetrator of this reprehensible act is quickly apprehended — and local and federal law enforcement have my full support in working to keep our democratic process safe and secure," Gluesenkamp Perez said in a statement.
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There were surveillance cameras that covered the drop box and surrounding area, he said.
