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.
This is the Republican plan to steal the election. When does the civil war start? I give it 6 weeks before the first casualties pile in.
Let’s not normalize it.
Assuming they catch the shitbags, I see no need for further violence.
Are you kidding? Election day is a week away and an election clerk in San Antonio already got punched for telling somebody to take off his MAGA hat. I’m surprised nobody’s been shot already.
I doubt anything happens.
We might not hear about it, but there will definitely be consequences for these people when they’re caught.
I was replying to the comment about the civil war starting.
Courts should fast track this one to make an example of them. Arrest them and sentence them this week.
No, you want to wish them a complete and fair due process. Keep them behind bars in accordance with the maximum of sentencing guidelines.
Should not have divulged that, now they’re gonna go in with Rit dye and bleach and shit
I hate that the Orwellian thought of ballot boxes requiring armed guards just entered my brain, because it just did. It goes against everything democracy is supposed to be, but this is where American fascism has led my thoughts to rot
With a sufficiently not-fucking-around response to the terrorists who did it, betcha won’t need guards.
But America is gonna wrist slap nazis and say please.
You can’t prosecute the meth out of a redneck, America has tried for decades.
There are people who have the basic mammalian capability for aversion association, and people who don’t, these morons are no more capable of learning than ants.
Don’t bother trying to set an example, just use enforced attrition.
It’s not really orwellian.
It’s Oregon, the number of methed up rednecks without shit to do is unimaginable.
Orwellian would be if it were planned, this is just old-fashioned redneck stupidity.
There need to be extraordinary penalties for threatening election workers, intimidating voters, or destroying ballots. How about a minimum 20 year sentence to start?
I’m sorry, have you seen the j6 idiots?
Do you honestly believe they can count to 20 even after taking off their socks?
You can’t beat stupid, you can’t scare stupid, we need to just make voting one of those things they can’t get to easily, ie make the boxes like bank drops, or some other physical means.
Rednecks gonna redneck.
What are these things doing outside? I don’t get that. Put them inside the courthouse, post office, fire station, a million other places they’d be safe from arson.
The problem lies in that people need to access them outside working hours due to their own work schedules, which is ultimately the point of these things. Granted, a fire station,
police station, or even a hospital lobby would be better than outside.Edit: ok, maybe not a police station, but y’all get my point
Police station would be a terrible choice. People who aren’t able to vote on election day skew poor, black, brown, and/or immigrant - exactly the groups who would be (rightly) afraid of entering a police station.
Little bit concerned about a police station, both because people might feel intimidated, and votes could get ‘lost’.
Ah yes wiping out hundreds of democrat (and some non Democrat) votes in two of the bluest cities in the north west will surely have an impact on the election.
The Washington district that includes Vancouver has one of the most contested House races in the country this year.
Glusencamp-Perez ran on opposing Biden and working with Republicans.
Kent ran on opposing Perez for being a Democrat.
Absolutely insane.
Hey I just learned about her. Sinema 2.0!
One article I read said that the representative race was much closer. It might not affect the president, but could affect other positions.
Not clear that vehicle has been ID’d from that story. Says Volvo, but no specifics known. Is ID from another source?
Do you expect them to tell you the license plate number? What would make you feel better?
Yes that would make me feel better, and powerful.
Police usually find vehicle owners quickly when they have plate numbers. If car/owner is not home, then they will often tell public to be on lookout. They could have said colour/model or picture of Volvo if that is all they have… maybe they have all the info they need. Maybe they ask public for help later. Vehicle ID is usually enough to catch someone quickly.
Maybe they don’t need the public’s help.
But we did so well catching the Boston bomber.
Ok? Then call that police department for more information.
Since when do nazis drive volvos? I’d expect a Dodge RAM, E450, or huge Chevy truck
fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point
For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots
I don’t think it’s an “unknown” reason; the system requires a fire to have already been lit in order to activate. It’s fire a suppression system, not fire prevention.
The person who wrote the story doesn’t know. It’s unknown to them.
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Are you suggesting a political affiliation test for contractors? I don’t see how that could go wrong.
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I don’t know why a Democrat city that is in a major deficit hires such inept construction companies thst have Trump plastered all over their construction equipment.
Well, for starters viewpoint discrimination by a state actor is really fucking illegal..
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“There” is multiple locations.
