The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

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    The armed forces have been voting by mail for decades (over a century).

    I love the cognitive dissonance of “patriots” who mouth platitudes for those who’ve served, while actively working against the same mechanisms for civilians. Brain morons.

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      Vote by mail should be a federal mandate, let’s take all the money going to Israel and give it to the USPS instead for upgrades.

      My family is kinda split 50/50 politically but everyone spends time in one branch or another. That cognitive dissonance is fucking mind blowing when it’s your relative in uniform spouting the rhetoric of these stochastic terrorist shitbags