We are just over one week out from Election Day, and election tampering seems to be ablaze in parts of the United States. 

On Monday morning, a drop-off ballot box located in Vancouver, Washington, home to the state's 3rd Congressional District, went up in flames after an incendiary device attached to it exploded, destroying an unknown number of ballots. This is an important district for Democrats in their quest to retake control of the House of Representatives; incumbent Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is once again facing Republican Joe Kent, whom she beat two years ago by a narrow margin. The Cook Political Report has classified the race as a toss-up.

Local officials have yet to address the political implications of the explosion but are encouraging early voters in the district to make sure their ballot wasn't one of those destroyed.

“It appears that a device was attached to the outside of the ballot drop box that resulted in the ballots being ignited,” Clark County auditor Greg Kimsey told Oregon Live. 

“Anyone who deposited ballots after 11:00 Saturday morning should contact us immediately,” he said. “Our team will replace their ballot.”

As firefighters were addressing the situation in Vancouver, another ballot box across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon, was set ablaze. 

According to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), at around 3:30 a.m., officers responded to reports of a ballot box on fire near the corner of SE Morrison St. and SE 10th Ave. When they arrived, security personnel working in the area had already extinguished the fire.

Portland, of course, is overrun by radical leftists who have made the once-beautiful city the poster child for everything that is wrong with Democrat Party policies. It's not too hard a reach to say that leftists are running scared that Donald Trump and Republicans will take back the White House and are acting accordingly. With the left, action means violence. 

Information about the ballot box tampering is starting to surface, with one conservative personality hearing that a thermite composition was used in the Vancouver incident.

In other breaking news: the devices found in the ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington were well made using thermite and are made to burn the ballots, not explode. I hope to have additional information to share on this soon.

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 28, 2024

It is also being reported that local law enforcement officials have confirmed that the two incidents are related and that a "suspect vehicle" has been identified. And Monday's incidents are apparently connected to a previous drop box explosion that occurred in Vancouver earlier in October.

Police said Monday that a “suspect vehicle” has been identified in connection with incendiary devices that set fires to ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state.

Surveillance images captured a Volvo stopping at a drop box in Portland, Oregon, just before security personnel nearby discovered a fire inside the box on Monday, Portland Police Bureau spokesman Mike Benner told a news conference.

All of this comes as Republicans are making a concerted effort to push their constituents to participate in early voting. This makes ballot box tampering very tempting to bad actors who wish to disrupt the voting process. Just last week, a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee employee working in Montana was fired for shaking a drop-off ballot box as he supposedly checked to make sure it was attached correctly. 

Local official Greg Kimsey, auditor of Clark County, Washington, summed up the election tampering in his state this way: "Heartbreaking. It’s a direct attack on democracy.”