State and federal authorities are investigating a deliberately set fire that destroyed ballots inside a drop box in southwest Washington on Monday morning.

  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I’m sure most of the people living there who recently dropped a ballot in that box will care enough to ask the same thing though.

    I called the election board near me recently and learned my vote was deactivated because I changed registration, so my new ballot will be counted sooner but if I do nothing they’ll just count it on 15 Nov

    • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      I agree that almost everyone affected would WANT to vote again; most of the work of voting is deciding who to vote for, and they’ve already done that.

      Another problem though is that not everyone affected will know that anything happened to their ballot.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        But what other options are there? The ballots were destroyed, so there’s no way to know who to contact to let them know it happened.