KGW:

A ballot box in Southeast Portland and another in Vancouver were lit on fire early Monday morning. It’s currently unclear whether the two incidents are connected. 

Portland police officers responded around 3:30 a.m. to reports of a fire at a ballot box on Southeast Morrison Street. Security personnel who work in the area had extinguished the fire before officers arrived. Portland police determined an “incendiary device” was put inside the ballot box to ignite the fire. The bureau’s Explosive Disposal Unit removed the device.

Lighting ballot boxes on fire in a federal election is a serious crime. It is going to need to be investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice in federal and state courts.