Exactly one week remains until Election Day and a video of a burning ballot box is going viral.

An incendiary device was would have found by authorities next to the ballot box at the Fisher’s Landing Transportation Center in Vancouver, Washington, leaving hundreds of mail-in ballots destroyed.

Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey called the incident “heartbreaking” and a “direct attack on democracy” “Hundreds, hundreds… yeah, we don’t have an exact number at this point. We’ll probably never have an exact number,” Kimsey told a KOMO News journalist on the situation.

According to CNN, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security bulletin from September of this year said: “Some social media users are discussing and encouraging various methods to sabotage ballot boxes and avoid detection, likely increasing the targeting potential of this election infrastructure throughout throughout the 2024 election cycle.

“Election infrastructure remains an attractive target for some domestic violent extremists and other threat actors with election-related grievances who seek to disrupt the democratic process and electoral operations. »

In response, Clark County announced that election office employees would monitor all 22 ballot boxes throughout the department 24/7.

This incident is not the first of its kind during this election cycle, as the The FBI is investigating this and another “arson” of ballot boxes that occurred in Portland, Oregon.this month.

More than 11 million people watched the video showing authorities removing destroyed ballots from the box, and concern over the state of the election only increased.

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“The federal government better stop acting like we’re not witnessing a real coup,” one user commented.

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“If your vote doesn’t matter, then why are they literally burning the ballot boxes?”

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“Overall, this is an extremely disturbing development that has emerged in several states. Seeking to destroy the votes of the people is terrible and undemocratic. Specifically, this is WA-03, one of the most competitive races for the House of Representatives in the country.

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“If you cast or mailed your ballot, check online to make sure it was received. This is not a joke. It’s probably a good idea with this kind of crap going on. “

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In a recent statementThe U.S. Postal Service advised mail-in voters to turn in their ballots a week before Election Day.