It was just after 8 p.m. Sunday, and a ballot box near Ramona and Baldwin Park boulevards was ablaze. If confirmed, she said, it would be the first instance of ballot box arson in the county. “It angers me,” Baldwin Park Mayor Manuel Lozano said Monday. The California Republican Party has claimed responsibility for several unofficial ballot boxes that have popped up across the state in recent weeks. But the burning of the Baldwin Park ballot box goes far beyond slippery legal loopholes.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 19, 2020 17:37 UTC