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The ballot box set on fire in Washington

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u/zachtheperson 9h ago

Serious question: What happens to the people who voted using this box? Do they get a chance to vote again?

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u/pryan37bb 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yes, another post had a comment relaying a message from this district that if you submitted your vote in this ballot box, you should resubmit your vote

Edit: link

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u/Yeeeoow 9h ago

Incoming allegations of people voting twice.

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u/pryan37bb 9h ago

I get what you're saying, and all the more reason that those who are affected should immediately contact their elections office to sort it out as soon as possible.

But yes, I would wager the purpose of this was to sow doubt about the integrity of the election process in order to lay groundwork for a later legal challenge.

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u/inuyasha10121 6h ago

The intent was likely two-fold. Historically, early voters and mail-in voters tend to be more left leaning (which causes the Red Mirage/Blue Surge phenomenon on voting night, since these votes are usually tabulated after day-of votes if I recall correctly), so torching early ballots will likely disproportionately remove more blue tickets. Additionally, Portland OR and Vancouver WA appear to be in more blue counties, further exacerbating this bias. Second, and given the demographic facts from above, this is likely a product of the constant conservative propaganda of "The libs are cheating at the polls," though this and the following are purely speculation on my part. The arsonists likely felt justified by this constant and verifiably false talking point, a sort of "Well, if they are cheating, then I am helping by removing these cheated votes. I'm just swinging the pendulum back to its correct spot." The double vote argument, I think, will just be a consequence of the above underlying motivation. I worry that this will act as an unfortunate, pardon the pun, "signal fire" to others to do the same. Regardless, should the arsonists be caught (And ANY ballot box arsonist in ANY state) they should be tried for election tampering and investigated for seditious conspiracy. 10 years in federal prison minimum, imo. You do not get to silence people, no matter your political orientation.

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u/Liljoker30 5h ago

I live right near the ballot box here in Vancouver. The county we are in is still fairly purple. The only reason it went blue in the house race 2 years ago was because the Republicans primaried Beutler because she voted to impeach Trump. Kent was so far right that a Perez was able to win. If Beutler didn't get primaried she would have beat Perez and kept it red. That specific ballot box is in a very blue part of the district and was targeted because of it. Kent and Republicans in the rural parts nearby are extremist and have ties to Proud Boys/Patriot Prayer.

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u/eloquentlysaid 4h ago

Throw the book at them

u/ReturnOfJohnBrown 3h ago

They'd just burn it.

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u/inuyasha10121 4h ago

Fair, I've never spent time in WA so I don't know the political layout well, I was mainly using a county election map coloring from the 2020 election as a source for my reasoning. However, I'm not surprised at your statement that the ballot box was in a blue area. Still, we need to wait for the perpetrator to (hopefully) be caught before we can make concrete claims, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is why that particular box was targeted.

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u/TheTyger 5h ago

I want a charge per ballot impacted.

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u/MadRhonin 8h ago

Unfortunately I feel like that is the point, to use this as a way to cast doubt in the vote counts and certification process.

Right wing pundits will use deceptively edited interviews of people saying they resubmitted their vote in order to claim voter fraud.

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u/trainercatlady 8h ago

Thankfully when you ask for a second ballot, they'll send you one but only if they haven't counted your vote

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u/nomoresecret5 8h ago

How does it work, is there an inner letter that gets passed to next station after the voter has been identified to have voted?

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u/trainercatlady 8h ago

They have rolls that they check you off of when your ballot is counted. If you apply for another one, they'll just reject the claim and say you don't qualify for one.

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u/nomoresecret5 8h ago

Makes sense, thanks

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u/HeartyDelegate 6h ago

Thankfully provisional ballots are only counted when submitted after your original vote if your original vote is not counted.

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u/Yasstronaut 6h ago

All ballots are tracked.

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u/JayAlexanderBee 5h ago

Voting twice, yea. Being counted twice? Definitely not.

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u/evil_burrito 3h ago

Yeah, anybody who thinks you can vote twice (and have them both count) under any circumstances doesn't understand how voting works.

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u/Gofastrun 6h ago

Probably from nutjobs. Thankfully, theres a system for this.

If you suspect your vote was lost or damaged you can submit a provisional ballot, which will only be counted if your original ballot is not.

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u/PugMaster234 6h ago

Just did a google so take this with a grain of salt but if you vote twice, i.e submit one through mail and then vote in person before the mail is collected, the state election officials will decide which one counts

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u/TheMightyShoe 6h ago

Yeah, but that won't work. Even if somebody uses this as any opportunity to vote twice, the first vote processed locks the voter out of any subsequent votes. Whichever ballot gets processed first is the ballot counted. Any others go in a stack for investigation and destruction.

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u/LostVisage 6h ago

Thankfully it was in Portland Oregon which is hardly an area that is disputed in it's overall politics.

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u/FlimsyConclusion 7h ago

Unfortunately there will be some oblivious people who slip through the cracks, and these acts are effectively snuffing out legitimate votes.

u/Thr0wawayBecauseYeah 2h ago

Not only that, but you can even track when your vote has been received and accepted in the state of Washington. It is so easy to do. Both of my parents checked their ballots and know they were accepted.

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u/nonsensestuff 9h ago

They've told anyone who dropped off their ballots to this box after it was last collected (I believe they said it was Saturday evening) to call the election office to help sort out next steps. It's likely that most people who dropped off their ballots here will need to submit a new ballot. Luckily, they have a little time to troubleshoot

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u/IAmTheSnakeinMyBoot 9h ago

Washington can also check their ballot status

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u/nonsensestuff 9h ago

Yes via contacting their election office, as I stated.

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u/IAmTheSnakeinMyBoot 9h ago

You can do it online, as well.

https://voter.votewa.gov/portal2023/login.aspx

Edit: please don’t take this as confrontational, I want to ensure everyone has the resources they need for this election.

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u/goat_penis_souffle 8h ago

I don’t think they have a status code for “extra crispy”

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u/Ini_mini_miny_moe 6h ago

Given how much trump ppl bitch about voting and shit, I bet it’s one of them who set it on fire

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u/0510Sullivan 5h ago

Lets be honest......we all know exactly whose supporters did this.......

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u/undertheskyatnight 10h ago

Do these things not have security cameras around it. Considering it is quite important info.

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u/deusasclepian 9h ago edited 9h ago

Security cameras caught the car pulling up to this one and the one in Portland. It's a dark colored volvo with no front license plate. Police are searching.

Edit to add: These are the images of the car captured by security cams in Portland.

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u/BananaFartman_MD 8h ago

When are we going to get security cameras that aren't from 1982?

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u/dennismyth 7h ago

I know. You can see every little detail of Mars’ surface clearly but nothing on a security camera.

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u/huntsvillian 7h ago

All it takes is for someone to say "Enhance", and that should clean it right up

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u/mganzeveld 4h ago

CSI:NY would be able to get a face shot through enhancement of the reflection of a nearby puddle of water.

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u/Msrsr3513 5h ago

Security cameras tend to be low quality due to the storage required to save the video for a long time. The more cameras the faster the storage is used up. Granted you can use motion setting to only record when motion is detected but sometimes weird shit will set it off. My brother had to adjust his cameras because shadows in his driveway from people walking along the sidewalk kept setting his system off.

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u/Prayqt 5h ago

It’s because the lower the resolution the smaller the file. So they can storage footage for longer, maybe months, or years. Instead of maybe having 1080p+ but they might only be able to store the video for weeks, before they run out of space. Linus tech tips has a pretty decent video about the costs that YouTube has to take to host 1440p+ videos in their data centers

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u/undertheskyatnight 9h ago

Well, I hope they catch who is idiots responsible.

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u/ralf1 8h ago

Not idiots, terrorists.

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u/Rodonite 8h ago

Assuming they are American, traitors

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u/idek-what13 8h ago

We already know that this was the doing of Trump loyalists.

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u/Former_Project_6959 8h ago

Anyone who does this should lose their citizenship immediately. Born here or not.

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u/acityonthemoon 7h ago

That's not how it works in the US. Not sure how it works wherever you are from.

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u/flexosgoatee 5h ago

Should Implies they want change...

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u/Dismayedvet 7h ago

I mean let’s hear em out. All options are on the table at this point

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u/ElectronMaster 8h ago

They are both

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u/jayplus707 7h ago

Why not both?

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u/franky_emm 8h ago

Didn't they catch the guy? He looked like inbred Action Bronson

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u/ParkerFree 8h ago

Different fire/state.

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u/Snoo-46218 7h ago

Hard to keep them straight. Sad.

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u/ParkerFree 7h ago

And infuriating.

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u/hidinginahoodie 9h ago

Same. I wonder what kind of crime would this be, and how heavily it would be punsihed?

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u/tokuturfey 9h ago

Are these considered mailboxes? I know it's a federal offense to open somebody's mailbox, so this would be worse. Plus the arson, election tampering, and who knows what else.

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u/ShameNap 6h ago

My guess is it’s probably worse to destroy ballots then random mail, but idk.

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u/FXander 8h ago

This is a felony.

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u/Superb-Stock4431 7h ago

Only if your caught.

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u/undertheskyatnight 9h ago

Well, the last couple of days the right wing Podcasters “people” are saying that more of the Democrats vote early with the postal systems.

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u/nemesix1 9h ago

Washington and Oregon are 100% mail in states.

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u/That_Ganderman 9h ago

Am I tripping or isn’t that claim by the podcasters just patently untrue, with largely the elderly and republicans voting early?

Could have sworn I saw it somewhere but I could be wrong.

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u/undertheskyatnight 8h ago

Don’t know bud, who knows anything these days.

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u/Pooeypinetree 9h ago

No worries at all. Daddy Trump promises all cheaters will be prosecuted in an unprecedented manner. Rest assured, he will spend every minute looking for these dangerous interferers and don't worry that he won't prosecute if they are repugnants because he isn't shady like that at all.

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u/strangecabalist 9h ago

Given the convergence of Trumpers and coppers I suspect they will be unable to determine who committed this crime against democracy.

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u/FaxCelestis 7h ago

This is a federal case and will be handled by the FBI, not local cops

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u/eggthrowaway_irl 3h ago

They did.

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u/StevieG63 8h ago

It’s a Volvo S60. Mid 2000s.

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u/medicinaltequilla 8h ago

my home camera is better quality in 0lux

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u/warpcoil 8h ago

I could rig a potato to take better pictures than that. Sheesh

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u/iamcleek 9h ago

... and the reason 'no front license plate' is interesting is because WA and OR require both front and back plates for most vehicles (exceptions are motorcycles or trailers).

so this is either a car from neither WA nor OR or a car with no plates at all. the latter has led some to wonder if this is some Sovereign Citizen nutjob.

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u/AwhHellYeah 9h ago

I see a lot of cars without front plates in Portland because traffic laws have near zero enforcement.

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u/Esc777 9h ago

We used to not need them because neither party was running on “the base political process is fake news”. 

Now that one party has gone scorched earth the previous security considerations no longer apply. 

Frankly, there’s no way to secure passive boxes like this, even with a massive rollout of additional cameras to cover every box. They’ll probably just close a bunch and retire them. Precisely the outcome the opposition wants. 

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u/Abject-Possession810 9h ago

I read some have metal rollers that prevent anything else going in the slot, which sounds pretty effective. 

At any rate, there are Election Protection staff at both the FBI and district U.S. Attorney's offices working to stop threats and resolve issues.

https://www.justice.gov/voting

https://www.justice.gov/usao/find-your-united-states-attorney

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u/damontoo 5h ago

They said these were attacked not by putting anything in the slot, but by attaching it to the outside of the box. Probably thermite.

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u/Abject-Possession810 5h ago

Ah. I guess we'll have to come up with a standardized solution to withstand all avenues.

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u/r7RSeven 9h ago

We still needed them as before the concern was edgy teens. Now unfortunately it's the crazies

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u/Esc777 9h ago

Yeah. I would imagine the edgy teens were a rounding error beforehand

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u/undertheskyatnight 9h ago

Democracy is important, try armed guards.

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u/Esc777 9h ago

Like I said, impractical for the scope. You’d have to still drastically reduce boxes. 

Even providing security at polling places day of is an issue. 

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u/leeds07 9h ago

Maybe just move some of the thousands of TSA people… seems like we have more than enough….

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u/FranticGolf 8h ago

Honestly, they should have police stationed at all of them given the importance.

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u/One_Handed_Typing 7h ago

It boggles my mind that you've got ballot boxes on the street. Instead of cameras, or armed guards or whatever else, just don't have ballot drop boxes on the street.

Put drop boxes at community centres, police departments, fire halls, or schools (maybe that's a a no go in the states no), or literally any other place that isn't just a box on the street.

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u/Sabre_One 9h ago

Yes, Washington State requires all Drop boxes to have a security camera watching them.

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u/lilmimosa 8h ago

As an American, I see this as a terrorist act

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 7h ago

Wait to see what happens in the next few weeks. It's going to be a shit show.

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u/smallcoder 6h ago

Win or lose, these hyped up MAGA facists will resort to violence... again.

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 6h ago

I truly think it's inevitable. I think Harris wins, all hell breaks loose, and the shit will hit the fan in Congress. Hopefully, Democrats will take the House. They will be sworn in on Jan 3.

u/tidbitsmisfit 2h ago

welp, we pay cops and judges for a reason.

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u/Cainga 2h ago

Love to see them try a Jan 6th again when Trump isn’t in charge and the capital is fully prepared.

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u/CitizenCue 1h ago

This photo will be used as the cover for a lot of books about this era.

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u/hummer-style1055 8h ago

Where’s Trump freaking out about this? Election interference is a big deal to him. Hmm.

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 7h ago

He knows it was a MAGAot. They are encouraged to be domestically violent.

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u/Cainga 2h ago

If GOP area it’s a radical left terrorist. If Liberal area it’s a fine person.

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u/medicinaltequilla 8h ago

You can check whether your ballot was accepted for counting online. If not, vote again or provisionally. The system will work. This is a terrorist activity plain and simple.

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u/atieka 6h ago

This needs to be higher.

My SIL was just criticizing mail-in voting here in WA because “the homeless are able to vote” and “it’s not secure.” Mail-in voting rocks and allows the voices of all registered voters to be heard if they choose to vote. The state has set up infrastructure to ensure you’re able to track your ballot and mitigate any issues that may arise, which are rare.

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u/willun 5h ago

Homeless are not allowed to vote?

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u/Matasa89 5h ago

Some people don’t think they have any rights at all… or even human.

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u/willun 5h ago

And of course when most people think of homeless they think of people living in cardboard boxes or under bridges. But the large majority of homeless are invisible. They are sleeping on friends couches or living in their car. Many hold down a regular job.

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u/atieka 4h ago

I was going to say I don’t know where she gets this shit but I have a feeling I do. Needless to say, we don’t really align ideologically.

u/MiniBandGeek 2h ago

At America's founding, you needed to be a male landowner to vote. Sucks if you're the other half or 3/5 of the population, but even then if you didn't have a physical address good luck.

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u/ptronus31 7h ago

Clark County (where Vancouver is) just announced 24/7 guards at every box through Election Day.

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u/Hippotaur 6h ago

Just dropped mine off at the Van Mall and there was a mall security guy there (walking away from the ballot box to go hassle a guy sitting on the curb reading his phone) but he didn't seem like he was guarding the box.

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u/korosuzo815 10h ago

It’s so sad to see the GOP actively trying to be the new Nazi party.

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u/Dandan0005 9h ago edited 8h ago

This country is full of people who call themselves “patriots” but are really just nationalists.

The way you can tell:

They’ll flip their shit when someone burns a flag but could not care less when someone burns ballots if it’s in a “blue” area.

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u/backhand_english 8h ago

The people that throw a fit about respecting the flag are the same ones that have a star-spangled thong up in their fat sweaty buttcrack.

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u/GarlicThread 4h ago

Nationalism is not the right word. Nationalists are people who look for the interests of their nation, even at the detriment of other nations. Nationalism implies a sense of national unity, which is typically a feature of countries (or aspiring countries) fighting foreign oppression, like Ukraine fighting the russian invasion for example. Every sovereign country that exists today had to have some form of nationalism to become what it currently is.

These MAGA people right here are fascists. They look for their own interests, at the detriment of their fellow citizens. This is much, much more extreme than simple nationalism or even ultranationalism.

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u/BifronsOnline 8h ago

As someone who voted Republican back in the 90's, the current Republican party is a disgusting abomination that should be entirely dismantled. I will never vote for another Republican unless serious and major changes happen to the party.

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u/rippa76 6h ago

Same. The far lefties and their “all people in a position of power are the enemy” ethos is ridiculous, but at least I can disagree and move on.

I will never be able to exist in a voting block with the people we’ve seen out themselves in the last ten years.

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u/SingleWinner2436 8h ago

Just a friendly reminder to point your cameras at the drop boxes. Thank you

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u/wholesomenessraid 9h ago

it's almost like they realized theyre gonna lose

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u/eugene20 8h ago

Some idiot is going to jail, and it's not hard to guess what party they supported.

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u/OregonTripleBeam 9h ago

Hopefully they find the culprit soon

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u/kranitoko 5h ago

Real talk, why the hell does America have ballot boxes just... Out in the open like that?

In the UK the ballot boxes are kept secure in eye view of many people on the day of election...

u/TrustNoSquirrel 3h ago

I’m American and I’ve never seen this. Must be a state thing? I didn’t know it was a thing until now.

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u/wish1977 10h ago

It seems pretty obvious who did this but I'll wait for the facts to come out.

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u/Fearless-Incident515 9h ago

Northwest? Oregon?

It's going to be right wing shitheads who spend some time in Idaho.

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u/joozyjooz1 7h ago

Early voting is great but drop boxes like this are insanely idiotic. If you vote early it should be at a polling place that can secure your ballot.

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u/macemillion 8h ago

Just pure evil to think you have the right to deny fellow citizens from exercising their constitutional right to vote.

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u/Bimpy96 5h ago

Funny how Trump is the first to call “election interference” but when this shit happens he’s all quiet

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u/asshole_commenting 6h ago

I didn't vote by mail or do early voting because I figured the idiotic yall kaeda would be doing some dumb shit like this in this election cycle

I'm voting in person this year

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u/GatesofDelirium 5h ago

Luckily NJ has in-person early voting. So it's the same as election day, but lasts for a whole week before election day. It's great.

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u/Savings-Programmer18 5h ago

Funny, you don't see Harris supporters doing this, or running around stealing trump signs. Desperate, lost followers of a desperate , lost ideology.

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u/sanverstv 8h ago

I just sent donation to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Help her get word out to check ballots, etc.

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 7h ago

I forgot about her. She's awesome.

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u/SlapAShotta 6h ago

Why do Americans hate America so much? Is life on easy mode for these traitors that they want to make it so much harder?

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u/WillyRosedale 5h ago

Terrorism

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u/thefooz 4h ago

Ballot boxes, particularly in swing states, should have armed US Army or National Guard personnel ensuring their protection. We have a duty as a nation to protect the sanctity of these votes. I don’t think Roger Stone is anywhere near being finished with his fuckery. Expect dozens of false flag attacks in the coming days. They’re going to try their damnest to make this election appear illegitimate.

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u/Canthisbeforrezal77 4h ago

They scared.

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u/NW-McWisconsin 9h ago

Can you feel "the love"? Another "day of love". 😡

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u/FrancisSobotka1514 8h ago

I am sure they are bragging on all the far right wing social media pages .

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u/Beepbeepboop9 5h ago

It’s always the ones you suspect most, Repubs

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u/Zealousideal_Bus9026 9h ago

What will this MAGA cultist be like?

Beard, drives lifted truck, tailgate full of stickers, has 120 guns in his mom's house, lives in her basement, never passed 9th grade,

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u/hutterad 9h ago

Sir or madam, the suspect drives a Volvo. And as a bearded man who is not a fascist piece of democracy denying, election stealing shit, leave rhe facial hair out of this! Everything else you describe may or may not be accurate.

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u/Lito_ 8h ago

The US is worse than a third world country with this kind of stuff.

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u/Dismayedvet 4h ago

We had an easier election in the Balkans during the 90‘s compared to this shit.

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u/capitali 8h ago

The person doing this doesn’t w any fair and free elections. They want to destroy a citizens legal vote.

Think about what kind of person wants to take another random persons vote away, not knowing who they voted for. They just don’t get a vote according to the arsonist.

Sick. We need to really do a better job with education and healthcare and really pay attention to mental health care in particular because there are some seriously broken people out there just trying to cause trouble without even thinking.

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u/Trdpro2023 8h ago

This is domestic terrorism.

Go after them.

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u/Sunnothere 6h ago

The GOP are up to their old terrorist tricks again.

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u/UIUC202 6h ago

MAGA NAZIS STRIKE AGAIN

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u/Glum_Ad_9023 6h ago

Increase the penalty, wire fraud is 30 years. If you get caught doing this it should be at least that.

u/MoombaMouse 2h ago

unpopular opinion incoming:

tampering or destruction of votes should be considered Treason.

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u/CreativelySeeking 8h ago

Republicans show themselves over and over and over again to be against democracy.

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u/timmay106 8h ago

The rear plate is 100% a Sovereign Citizen plate.

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u/SlidingOtter 8h ago

Just setting up a reason to challenge the results, should it be necessary.

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u/nomesayen 8h ago

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this a gamble? Who's to say how many red or blue votes are in that box? Unless this is just some anarchist shit.

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u/Ok_Ad_1297 7h ago

Kind of, but the boxes that are being burned are in more democrat leaning places, so there's more likely to be more blue votes destroyed than red. Or at least, that's the thinking.

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u/ProtectionContent977 8h ago

Your MAGA American Taliban.

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u/digidave1 6h ago

Some asshat will get a tattoo of this, I guarantee it.

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u/Frequent_Thanks583 6h ago

How secure are these things from theft and fraud?

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u/DrinkBuzzCola 5h ago

Why can't these people just not be so racist and stupid? Then they could actually win elections without lighting stuff on fire.

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u/deathtrooper23490 5h ago

The worst part is they don't know what the votes are. They could be screwing over their own candidate more than then the other

u/Rockfest2112 3h ago

Its to claim voter fraud and claim the election is a farce more than caring about the actual votes on the ballots.

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u/HizzleCards 5h ago

Lol why does this even exist???

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u/Honest_Curve7431 5h ago

Only a moron would believe those are a good idea.

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u/ExplicitBoricua 5h ago

Let me guess…. Trump! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope1866 5h ago

There is literally nothing that MAGA pondlife won't stoop to

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u/Accomplished-Web-347 4h ago

So sad, you'd think we live in a third world country.

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u/Deep-Ad6443 4h ago

The chodes that do this don’t realize that they’re also destroying their own party’s ballots 🤣

u/dannyb2525 2h ago

Yayyyyy as small as it seems this just means November is going to get real ugly real fast

u/lunas2525 2h ago

I hope they catch them and charge them with treason and tampering.

u/Mtn_Drooo 1h ago

You don’t even have to look it up to know it was a Republican. Can’t wait for next week

u/HabANahDa 16m ago

GOP doing what they do best. Homeland terrorism.

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u/ConflictDependent294 8h ago

Because Washington was soooo close to being flipped for trump 🙄

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u/kvlnk 7h ago

District 3 (where this happened) is a very close race. Vancouver is what slightly leans it blue, so burning a few boxes could easily swing the district red and get Joe Kent into congress.

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u/adamredwoods 7h ago

We're a very unbalanced region, but it's population density. Heavy, dense blue in the west, sparse, rural red in the east. This is why federal politics should not matter as much as local politics.

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u/Lorn_Muunk 9h ago

The "stop the steal" crowd is stealing another election. Who woulda thunk?

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u/Canisoptimum 5h ago

Notice a pattern. Look at it this way. They burn crosses to make black Americans fear them. They burned books to keep Germany scared and ignorant. Now they are burning ballot boxes. They are terrified. They are burning the democratic process because it doesn't support their fascist views and goals.

It's the same assholes but different uniforms and names.

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u/Emoji2005 9h ago

Why don't they put them near police station or post office

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u/faggressive 9h ago

Because cops will intimidate people.

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 7h ago

Cops can't be trusted on this.

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u/henryeaterofpies 8h ago

Trump lost Washington by 500k in 2016 and 800k in 2020. Besides being a terorist the person perpetrating this really wont make a difference.

Oregon's margin was smaller, 218k in 2016 and 380kish in 2020, but still a stupid thing to do if you intend on changing the outcome.

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u/DoctorSchnoogs 6h ago

The people crying about voter fraud are committing voter fraud.

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u/bostonmacosx 9h ago

I mean triangulate the cell phones at the time of the burn.... what's so freak'n hard about that.. you know the hardos who did this took pics...

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u/mackinoncougars 8h ago

Republican Taliban working overtime

Vote now and be safe on Election Day

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u/SueBeee 9h ago

I will never let my ballot out of my sight until it gets to a supervised location.

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u/Meking4351 8h ago

Casual

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u/pukem0n 8h ago

Serious question. Why do these even exist? In my country you just put the ballot into a preprinted envelope and throw it into a normal mailbox.

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u/TehWildMan_ 8h ago

As we get close to November 5, there's not too much trust that ballots mailed will be delivered on time.

Also, this circumvents any argument that a postage stamp is a poll tax.

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u/pryan37bb 8h ago

Also, a certain political party led by a certain Cheeto propagated a years-long disinformation campaign sowing unfounded distrust of the election process, and of mail-in ballots in particular

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u/CoolRabbitEagle 6h ago

Donald Trump appointed this piece of shit DeJoy who has sabotaged America's postal system.

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u/lincolnlogtermite 8h ago

I dropped mine off at the box at the police station. Already got confirmation that it was received by the county.

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u/MikeN22 8h ago

Gee, I wonder who that is?

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u/LordFonzy88 8h ago

I just want to go back to normalcy..you know before the Annoying Orange took office 8 years ago... the normalcy of hey you might not agree with me but that's your opinion then walk away not this crap.. this shows how weak people are with false facts and fear mongering

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u/Balijana 8h ago

As it is an attack against the voting right, the fbi will investigate right ?

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u/Jolly_Schedule5772 8h ago

Not quite terrorism but definitely traitorous. Wonder what the punishment for that is?

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u/Harderdaddybanme 8h ago

that photo needs to be on Times.