Ballots destroyed after fires in #election drop boxes | AP News

The early morning fire at the drop box in #Portland was extinguished quickly thanks to a suppression system inside the box as well as a nearby security guard, police said, and just three #ballots were damaged there

But within a few hours, another fire was discovered at a transit center #dropbox across the Columbia River in #Vancouver.

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Ballots destroyed after fires in election drop boxes

Incendiary devices have been set off at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland, Oregon, and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy.

^{GENE JOHNSON (AP News)}