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.
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…
The full plan is detailed here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/little-secret-trump-johnson-election/.
Basically, they just need enough States to withhold submitting valid slates of electors, which are due on Dec 11th. If that doesn’t happen, and it lowers the amount of electoral college voters enough so no single candidate has a majority, then the US House gets to decide.
In other words, we’re fully reliant on GOP controlled States doing the right thing. We’re fucked.
Oh wonderful, a new anxiety is unlocked… Though I will say that this wouldn’t happen until mid to late December, and we will have election results around Nov 6-8. This is definitely a much harder gambit with over a month of time knowing the result of the election, that is to say, it’ll be much more clearly a coup than if it happened during election day. Lets just hope this is a landslide for Harris, and the chance of this being a viable option for trump being even lower.
And actually burns up Harris votes in the process, making it even easier for him.
Fuckety fuck fuck.
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.
You’re right, its a drop in the bucket for votes, but its a bullshit reason to cry “corruption” which we will certainly feel.
True, it’s not exactly like they care about real proof.
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
Oh well. Any votes destroyed is bad.
MAGA Terrorist
That wrote “free gaza” on the incendiary devices and drives a Volvo? I mean… maybe, I guess.
Where did you see that info? The article is horrible, but I am pretty sure it never said that.
Try learning about an event by reading more than just one source. See if you can do it all by yourself without someone feeding it to you. I’m rooting for you. Just think, you could have already learned this yourself using Google and it would have taken less time and words than you spent asking for it in your comment.
You don’t have to be a dick about it. We’re all here to converse with each other, not google. Maybe they wanted to engage with another human being instead of a search engine. But instead they got you. Come on, chill out and treat others how you want to be treated. You can do it, I believe in you.
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This is terrorism.
Waiting for the car’s MAGA owner to be arrested and prosecuted. Probably expecting an eventual pardon from Bonespurs. Good luck wit dat.
I was actually surprised that more ballot boxes weren’t being firebombed; I didn’t know they had fire suppression systems and am glad to hear it (and also slightly shocked that they’re necessary; chalk another point on the board for we’ve failed as a society and as a species).
The armed forces have been voting by mail for decades (over a century).
I love the cognitive dissonance of “patriots” who mouth platitudes for those who’ve served, while actively working against the same mechanisms for civilians. Brain morons.
Vote by mail should be a federal mandate, let’s take all the money going to Israel and give it to the USPS instead for upgrades.
My family is kinda split 50/50 politically but everyone spends time in one branch or another. That cognitive dissonance is fucking mind blowing when it’s your relative in uniform spouting the rhetoric of these stochastic terrorist shitbags
The military voted by mail in the Civil War.
I hope that vehicle ends up in a trash compactor with the occupant inside
I hope they catch the guy alive and we prosecute the asshole and make a public example of this guy who is most likely Republican.
I would bet up to $1k that this guy is Republican, but I don’t actually care what party they belong to. Make an example of them.
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When ya do sarcastic text, I recommend keeping all of your “i”s lowercase and all your “L”s capital.
…though with autocorrect on a phone, doing so can be a huge pain in the butt, more effort than it’s worth.
Writing in kArEnCaSe is more Karen-y if it’s more annoying to read.
Gee. I wonder if it’s a right winger. As per normal, it’s totally unlikely…
Vancouver?? I told yall that foreigners were voting in our elections!!!
/s very much needed, as some moron on Facebook is 100% sincerely saying the same thing right now.
This seems like an election fraud crime done by a poor person, so there will likely be consequences.
Watch, this dude is going to be an off duty cop and the PPB will come out to accuse the red ballot boxes of not “backing da blue”
Failed state shit.
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.
If it is a plan, it’s pretty dumb. Of all places this act could sway the results, Oregon and Washington are pretty low on the list.
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.
Assuming they catch the shitbags, I see no need for further violence.
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.
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I think you’re seeing the reflection of your monitor, you can stop posting that everywhere.
No, you want to wish them a complete and fair due process. Keep them behind bars in accordance with the maximum of sentencing guidelines.
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 was thinking life in prison, and we haul them out every year during election season to talk about why they attacked ballot boxes, what they were trying to do, and if their life was worth throwing away for it.
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20 years?
In many countries you get the death sentence for treason like this.
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.
This used to be one of them.
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.
