Each device likely contained a coffee-cup amount of thermite, he said. The FBI at this time hasn’t linked the three ballot box arsons to any other arson attempts involving thermite, Olson said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The devices used to spark three ballot drop box fires in the Pacific Northwest during the 2024 election were made of a “very volatile mix” of thermite and scrap metal ...
Around 5 or 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, a week before the general election last year, he put his and his girlfriend’s ballots directly ...
Mike Herrington said they believe the suspect used scrap metal to create the devices that were attached to the ballot boxes and then filled each with a “coffee cup” amount of thermite. Oregon snowfall ...
The ballot drop box at Fisher’s Landing was damaged by ... The fire in Portland damaged only three. The devices used thermite, a mixture of metal shavings and iron oxide, authorities said ...
particularly after confirming that whoever tried to set fire to three ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver last fall used devices that included combustible thermite. “We’re very worried this ...