{"id":36657,"date":"2024-10-29T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36657"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:25:51","slug":"hundreds-of-ballots-possibly-burned-after-vancouver-ballot-box-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/10\/29\/hundreds-of-ballots-possibly-burned-after-vancouver-ballot-box-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXZXCVzTU48?si=aczJaWKsPPeD4AXX\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">VANCOUVER, Wash. \u2014 10\/29\/24 &#8211; <\/span>A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report &#8211; with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the incident is connected to two other arson incidents in Portland and SW Washington.<\/p>\n<p>KATU was on the scene at Fisher&#8217;s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver shortly after 4 a.m., where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a drop-off ballot box. <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson\">KATU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PEN: Since politicians want USPS to run the elections maybe we should do away with ballot drop boxes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ballot-Box-Fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36658 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ballot-Box-Fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ballot-Box-Fire.jpg 495w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ballot-Box-Fire-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ballot-Box-Fire-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, Wash. \u2014 10\/29\/24 &#8211; A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report &#8211; with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire. Investigators believe the incident is connected to two other arson incidents in Portland and SW Washington. KATU was on the scene at Fisher&#8217;s Landing Transit Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36659,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions\/36659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}