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FBI investigating after arsonist targets ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon

The FBI is investigating after hundreds of ballots were damaged when incendiary devices set fire to ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington early Monday morning.

Investigators said during a news conference on Monday that surveillance images show a Volvo stopping at a ballot drop box in Portland before nearby security found a fire inside the drop box. The fire damaged three ballots inside.

Another fire at a ballot drop box in Vancouver, Washington, destroyed hundreds of ballots. The Clark County, Washington, elections auditor said the last ballot pickup at the Vancouver location was 11 a.m. Saturday.

Police said incendiary devices were attached to the outside of both ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon.

During Monday’s news conference, investigators said enough material from the devices was recovered to show the two fires Monday morning were connected. Officials said the fires also appear to be connected to another incident on Oct. 8, when another incendiary device was placed at a different ballot drop box in Vancouver.

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. The system appeared to have worked in the Portland drop box, and security staffers were nearby to help put out the fire. However, the system failed at the drop box location in Vancouver.

The incendiary device found on Oct. 8 in downtown Vancouver did not damage the box or destroy any ballots, police said.

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