Monday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
FBI investigating ballot box fires in Vancouver and Portland, Seattle breaks a rain record, and we visit the WA county that reliably predicts the presidential election. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:50.8 | Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. |
| 0:59.0 | Coming up, we've got a Bellwether County right here in Washington State. |
| 1:03.0 | Clallum County has a real knack for predicting who's going to win the presidential race. |
| 1:08.0 | We'll visit in a few minutes after your news roundup. It's Monday, October 28th. |
| 1:15.1 | Starting with our top story today, ballot box tampering. Police say they've identified a suspect |
| 1:21.7 | vehicle connected to fires in ballot drop boxes in the Vancouver and Portland areas early this morning. Many ballots were |
| 1:29.3 | damaged. We don't have an estimate of how many. The FBI is coordinating with local law enforcement |
| 1:34.6 | in Washington to investigate a ballot dropbox that was set on fire in Vancouver. Authorities say it |
| 1:40.8 | could be connected to a similar arson in Portland. Greg Kimsey is the auditor of Clark County, Washington. |
| 1:48.1 | Borders and Clark County should know is that they use the Fishers Landing, C-Tran, Transit, etc., |
| 1:53.5 | ballot dropbox. After 11 o'clock a.m. on Saturday, they should contact Elections Office to get a replacement ballot. |
| 2:00.7 | Ballot boxes in Clark and King counties have fire suppression technology to prevent incidents |
| 2:06.1 | like this, but the one tampered with this morning did not successfully protect the ballots. |
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