New video shows Vancouver ballot box explodes, officials call it a ‘bombing’

Footage from C-TRAN cameras shows smoke coming from the ballot box at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center moments after someone stopped by. Less than 30 seconds after the car drives away, the ballot box explodes.

KATU obtained the video from the transit agency through a public records request on Monday.

The FBI’s Seattle office is leading the investigation. The agency put out a statement last week after the incident: “The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI want to assure our communities that we are working closely and expeditiously together to investigate the two incendiary fires at the ballot boxes in Vancouver, Washington, and the one in Portland, Oregon, and will work to hold whoever is responsible fully accountable."

Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey told KATU last week that the explosion has not deterred voters from using ballot drop boxes.

On Monday, Kimsey said after "the bombing of the Fisher’s Landing ballot drop-box… voters started using the ballot drop-box at a higher rate personally than we saw in 2020."

Kimsey told KATU the county had recovered 494 ballot remnants from the burned drop-box, of which six were unidentifiable. The remaining 488 had information identifying voters, which the auditor’s office has contacted.

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