Ballot drop boxes with completed ballots were set on fire overnight in Vancouver, Wash. and Portland, Ore., home of the radical Antifa movement. Vancouver is a slightly conservative community across the river from Portland. Police suspect arson in both of the fires.
The Portland drop box had a fire suppression system inside the box, and only three ballots were damaged.
Hundreds of ballots were damaged north of the river, however, in spite of the fire suppression system supposedly installed in the “secure” ballot drop box. The drop box was on the east side of Vancouver, near Fisher’s Creek, which closer to Camas, a very conservative-voting area.
That region of southwest Washington is the state’s 3rd congressional district and where one of the tightest races in the country is happening.
First-term Democrat Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez, who is co-chairs the Rural Antifa Blue Dog Democrats in Congress with Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, is facing a Republican challenger — Joe Kent.
Earlier this month, a ballot drop box was set on fire in Portland and police say all three arson instances appear to be connected.
Last week in Phoenix, about 20 ballots were destroyed, and others were damaged when a fire was set in a mailbox.
