# Hundreds of ballots are destroyed after fires are set in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 28, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/1009355 "2024-10-28T16:57:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/1009355/81 "2024-10-31T14:13:12Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> a white man age 30-40 with male pattern baldness who is an experienced metalworker.

Damn, those arson investigators are _good_.

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/1009355/82 "2024-10-31T14:31:14Z")

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Where they burn votes, they will, in the end, burn voters too. (Paraphrasing Heinrich Heine)

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/1009355/83 "2024-10-31T17:59:02Z")

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The news story I saw about that (WashPost?) had a surveillance camera shot of the car he was presumed to be driving, good enough to see something was sitting on the dashboard.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/1009355/84 "2024-10-31T18:21:41Z")

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Yeah, I’ve seen the image from the camera in the local news (since it’s fairly local to us). It’s not a great shot, there is no front license plate, and when the car drove off there wasn’t a clear picture of the rear plate.

It wasn’t clear enough to see what was on the dashboard either.

Ah… Here is the picture I saw on the news:

[![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/screenshot-2024-10-28-at-5-26-48-pm.png?q=w_1110,c_fill) ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/screenshot-2024-10-28-at-5-26-48-pm.png?q=w_1110,c_fill)

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