This is the second such incident in the area, a congressional district that Trump won in 2020 but was won by >1% by Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in 2022.
October 29, 2024

It would be wrong to point fingers without proof at Republican Joe Kent or his supporters, just because he espouses far-right, white nationalist positions and hires neo-fascist Proud Boys for his staff. It would be wrong to conclude, without proof, that just because he's a nazi and this is nazi-like behavior that he or his supporters have had anything to do with the recent arson. We should never jump to conclusions like that. Right?

Source: KATU, Vancouver, Wash

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report - with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire.

KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver shortly after 4 a.m., where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a drop-off ballot box.

Our photographer Evan Bell captured grey smoke steadily billowing out of the Park and Ride ballot box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center near Southeast 162nd Avenue.

Multiple police units were in the area, and the ballot box was cordoned off by police tape as it continued to smoke.

Around 6 a.m., KATU captured footage of first responders releasing a pile of actively burning ballots onto the ground, which continued to smolder and smoke heavily even after the flames were put out.

The Clark County elections auditor told us that the last ballot pickup at that location was 11 a.m. Saturday. Hundreds of ballots were inside at the time of the burning, and KATU was told there were maybe only a few that could be saved.

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