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

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — Footage from C-TRAN cameras shows smoke coming from the voting booth at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center moments after someone passed. 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 issued a statement last week after the incident: “The United States Attorney’s Office and the FBI want to assure our community that we are working closely and quickly together to investigate the two fires at the polls in Vancouver, Washington, and one in Portland, Oregon, and will work to hold whoever is responsible fully accountable.”

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

On Monday, Kimsey said after “the bombing of the Fisher’s Landing ballot…voters started using the ballot at a higher rate in person than we saw in 2020.”

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