The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      If I were to run his statement through a different filter he’s stating “it’s in their genes and we need to kill them” but I don’t think he wants to use those words.

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        Oh yeah, that’s my thoughts as well. Which is weird, it’s not usually something you run into in this context.