Good for KATU-TV for being able to get on-the-spot video of potential ratfcking in action.

KATU responded to the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver shortly after 4 a.m., where heavy smoke was coming from a ballot box. Our photographer Evan Bell captured the gray smoke steadily pouring out of the Park and Ride ballot box at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center near Southeast 162nd Avenue. There were several police units in the area and the ballot box was cordoned off with police tape because it continued to smoke. Around 6 a.m., KATU captured footage of first responders dropping a pile of actively burning ballots to the ground, which continued to smolder and smoke heavily even after the flames were extinguished.

I would just say that KATU’s Evan Bell has done a greater service to democracy than Jeff Bezos has done in his entire life.

The Clark County Election Auditor told us the last round of voting at that location was at 11 a.m. Saturday. There were hundreds of ballots inside at the time of the fire, and KATU was told only a few might be salvageable. Voters who dropped off their ballots at that location after 11 a.m. Saturday should contact the elections auditor immediately for a new ballot.

It might be time to put live cams on all these drop boxes. Or very large dogs. There will be more of them. Depend.