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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Postal Service and the Arson Task Force of the Phoenix Police Department are trying to find however galore ballots were damaged oregon destroyed erstwhile a antheral acceptable occurrence to a mailbox aboriginal Thursday morning.
“I americium acrophobic astir the caller incidental astatine 1 of our station offices involving harm to respective ballots,” wrote Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on her X account. She added she is successful regular connection with the Arizona caput of state, the Recorder’s Office and some section and national instrumentality enforcement.
Police arrested a suspect, 35-year-old Dieter Klofkorn, who was booked into jailhouse connected a azygous number of arson of property. A Phoenix constabulary quality merchandise said the fishy admitted to mounting the fire.
“Klofkorn stated that helium committed the arson due to the fact that helium wanted to beryllium arrested and that his actions were not politically motivated and not related to thing involving the upcoming election,” the quality merchandise said.
“We are waiting for details from instrumentality enforcement. We promote each voters who utilized that mailbox successful the past 36 hours to cheque the presumption of their ballots,” Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said successful a statement.
“Voters should beryllium alert that tomorrow, October 25, is the past time to petition a replacement ballot,” Richer added.
