This is the most important election of our lives. Not important enough to hire, like, one person to watch the boxes to make sure they aren't set on fire though.
Text description of Image: Twitter post by Katu News: Watch: The moment responders remove HUNDREDS of burning ballots from a Vancouver ballot box this morning. Full story... (URL I can't read). Below that, subtweeted, by Evan Bell (@evanbellKATU) The clark county elections ballot drop box at the fisher's landing transit center was lit on fire this morning. Clark Co. Augitor Greg Kimsey says hundreds of ballots were insde at the time. The last pickiup being 11am Saturday. Full story here (incomplete URL) @katunews
Below that is an image. It is a rainy evening. In the back ground police emergency tape sections off the area. In the foreground a person is wreathed in smoke as they reach for a pile of burning material that has been pulled from an open ballot drop box. The drop box has "Official Ballot Drop Box" written on that and below that a large "VOTE" decal next to an american flag. Standing behind the smoke clouded person are two first responders. One holds a camera.
Vancouver, Washington is just north of Portland, Oregon. Home to large numbers of remote-work libertarians because Washington has no income taxes and Oregon has no sales taxes.
Ngl, that sounds kinda sweet. It's like the people who work in Chicago and then live at the absolute edge of Wisconsin.
Sweet for them but Vancouver (WA) is a shell of a town as a result because they spend all their time & money in Portland.
I blame Washington though for having some of the most regressive tax laws in the country.
Oof, I'm sorry. I remember wanting to move to Washington for the weather when I was younger. (That or Boston or Louisiana.) But money (or lack thereof) has largely kept me confined to the Midwest.
WA is quite beautiful if you get the chance to see it, do