With less than a week until the end of in person voting (and courts to decide how long 'voting' keeps up after that) we've already had a handful of incidents of mail in ballot insecurity, threatening to taint this election

First in Minnesota we had a tame incident where a vehicle full of ballots in Edina was left unlocked and trunk open with unsecured cases, though no reports of anyone tampering with them. The worker responsible was fired.

In Phoenix a 35 year old homeless man set fire to a dropoff, apparently unaware it was filled with ballots and simply wanted to be arrested for three hots and a cot. 20 votes were damaged

In Mesa County at least a dozen votes were intercepted in the mail, fraudulently filled out, signatures forged and mailed back in. At least 3 votes were counted and cannot be extracted as secret ballots are pooled together. Better hope its not a close county

In Delaware ct PA, a gop official was arrested at an early polling site with very long lines as she encouraged people to stay in line and make sure their vote counts. Apparently without any partisan message or campaigning, just telling people to vote. She accuses poll workers of discouraging voters and telling them to leave the line unless they had a 'pressing reason to be there'

And the only really consequential one: In portland and vancouver, three dropoff sites were attacked by arsonists. The state has ONLY mail in voting, you cannot vote in person. A handwritten note reading "ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN, FREE GAZA" was recovered. One site had minor damage with a fire suppression system built in putting out the flames, another failed to detonate, but the Vancouver site destroyed hundreds of ballots.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/us/ballot-box-fires-what-we-know/index.html

It's insane that WA and OR ballot boxes are being burned. Not only what you already said, but also, these two states are not even in play. No rational actor would do this, which tells me it's the regime creating the grounds for an election integrity casus belli when Trump wins

This post was edited by Thebarba on Oct 30 2024 02:00am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQOzahwq8Bg&ab_channel=WTVRCBS6

Trope subverted. In shocking news, getting rid of illegal votes required the highest court in the land to grant an emergency appeal.

Or these are the actions of insane/irrational people

too many relevant topic's. i posted this earlier. this is a pretty straight forward attack on democracy:

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campaign-blinken-orchestrated-intel-letter-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop

This post was edited by ferdia on Oct 30 2024 01:33pm

ahh north western liberals being so extreme that even coddling spineless liberal politicians aren't liberal enough for them. its enough to make even a coma patient smile.

the PNW has some ultra-right wing wanna be militia MAGA patriots, including the entire eastern part of Washington and almost all of Idaho

Most of us in the interior PNW are right wing & many are outdoorsmen, just as many guns as the USA

The PNW coast has the highest concentration of radical leftists anywhere, they are largely localized there - Victoria BC here is the worst then Vancouver isn't much better, the interior PNW is de facto entirely disenfranchised

The FBI held a news conference laying out very specific details about the arson suspect without naming him, saying he's 20-40, balding white male with welding experience. Possibly just based on footage, but between that and his vehicle (4D dark volvo) it honestly shouldn't be that hard to narrow it down

A PAC led by a militant transgender antifa activist has been sending text messages to voters in swing states that falsely tell people they already voted, or weren't registered to vote. While it looks at face value like a voter suppression scam in progress, the PAC claims it accidentally left the phrase "in 2022" off the messages and intended it as a get out the vote reminder, but officials in multiple counties are warning about it as example of scam texts that try to dissuade people from voting.

Hundreds of ballots were abandoned on a highway in Miami-Dade after an elections worker improperly secured them and they simply fell off a truck. They had already been scanned and tabulated, and good samaritans recovered them and immediately turned them to police still sealed and undamaged.

its a pretty crazy contrast politically, beautiful area