Ballot boxes typically have video surveillance, and some have fire suppression systems or are indoors and secured overnight.

For ballot boxes in the Pacific Northwest, that’s precisely what happened. A bad actor ignited ballot collection boxes for mail-in ballots in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

Washington state’s ballot drop boxes closed at 8 p.m. local time for the 2024 General Election. Two photojournalists for The ...

Fires at two ballot drop boxes that destroyed hundreds of ballots in the Pacific Northwest this week, as well as a similar fire earlier this month, have raised questions about the role and ...

Two ballot boxes went up in flames early Monday morning in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, in incidents that ...

Two ballot drop box fires in the Pacific Northwest this week have stoked concerns about election security and the risk of ...

Four attempted ballot box arson cases across three Western states were reported last month, the last two of which happened a week before Election Day. An incident of a "suspicious device" smoking ...

Incendiary devices have been set off at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland, Oregon, and another in nearby Vancouver, ...

Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in Vancouver ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The man suspected of setting fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state is an experienced metalworker and may be planning additional attacks, authorities ...

Millions of Americans have already cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election at polling places or by dropping them in the mail or into drop-off ballot boxes — long a popular way to ...