Arson destroys hundreds of ballots inside a WA drop box • Washington State Standard
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State and federal authorities are investigating a deliberately set fire that destroyed ballots inside a drop box in southwest Washington.

State and federal authorities are investigating a deliberately set fire that destroyed ballots inside a drop box in southwest Washington on Monday morning.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      21·
      21 days ago

      I’m sure most of the people living there who recently dropped a ballot in that box will care enough to ask the same thing though.

      I called the election board near me recently and learned my vote was deactivated because I changed registration, so my new ballot will be counted sooner but if I do nothing they’ll just count it on 15 Nov

      • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        I agree that almost everyone affected would WANT to vote again; most of the work of voting is deciding who to vote for, and they’ve already done that.

        Another problem though is that not everyone affected will know that anything happened to their ballot.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          3·
          21 days ago

          But what other options are there? The ballots were destroyed, so there’s no way to know who to contact to let them know it happened.

    • Leeks@lemmy.world
      7·
      21 days ago

      If you are worried your mail in ballot is having issues, many states will allow you to cast a “provisional ballot” that only gets counted after they verify if your mail in ballot was processed.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      3·
      21 days ago

      Since the ballots hadn’t been collected, there’s no way for the state to know the identity of voters who dropped off ballots that were destroyed in the fire because those ballots were destroyed.