A burned ballot box in Portland, Oregon. (Credit: Portland Police Bureau)
PORTLAND, Ore., - Police in Oregon and Washington are investigating ballot boxes that were set on fire.
The Portland Police Bureau said on Monday morning, officers responded to reports of a fire at a ballot box located on the 1000 block of Southeast Morrison Street.
Security guards had extinguished the fire by the time officers had arrived.
Authorities said an incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box before the fire ignited. The police's Explosive Disposal Unit came onto the scene and cleared the device.
Also, according to FOX 12, police in Vancouver, Washington, are also investigating a ballot box that was set on fire Monday morning.
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The fire was set at the C-TRAN Park & Ride at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center, according to the outlet.
Someone told police that someone stuck a device outside the ballot box which set the fire.
Officials told the outlet that hundreds of ballots were burned. FOX 12 also reported that last time ballots were picked up from the box was 11 a.m. on Saturday.
The fires came after a similar instance in Arizona last week.
According to FOX 10 Phoenix, an arrest was made after a United States Postal Service mailbox in Phoenix was lit on fire last Thursday, damaging over a dozen ballots.
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The fire happened just before 1:30 a.m. on October 24 outside a post office near 7th Avenue and Indian School Road.
Phoenix Fire crews responded to the scene and extinguished the flames. Twenty electoral ballots, and other pieces of mail, were damaged in the fire.
"The Postal Inspector took possession of the damaged ballots and mail," Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade said. "The Phoenix Fire Investigations Task Force, which includes Phoenix Police detectives and Phoenix Fire investigators, are working with US Postal Inspectors."