Nov. 02, 2020 Route Fifty

Rain, Fire and Car Crashes: How Ballot Boxes are Built to Withstand the World

A few years ago, students emerged from a field trip at the elections office in King County, Washington to an unexpected scene: their school bus had collided with a ballot drop box in the parking lot.

The drop box was fine. The bus, not so much. Click here to read more!

Nov. 01, 2020 King 5 News

Puyallup metal company plays important role in securing your ballot

Larry Olson of Laserfab in Puyallup says they never intended to get into the ballot box making business, but it was an easy choice when Pierce County election officials asked them to replace old ballot boxes 10 years ago. Click here to read more!

Nov. 01, 2020 Kiro 7 News

[Video] Campaign 2020: Building Ballot Boxes

Kiro 7's Ranji Sinha shows an up close look at a Vote Armor's work during this year's election. Click here to see more! [Video]

Oct. 30, 2020 Tacoma News Tribune

This Puyallup metal company is playing a crucial role in Tuesday’s presidential election

Larry Olson is vice president for Puyallup-based metal fabricator Laserfab. The company makes tank-like ballot drop boxes. They’ve been in overdrive the past few months as counties across the country gear up for early and at-home voting. Click here to read more!

Oct. 22, 2020 Q13 Fox - Seattle

Locally designed ballot boxes collecting votes across the country

A local company is helping secure the vote through the ballot drop box. LaserFab Inc. in Puyallup makes Vote Armor ballot drop boxes that will be used in a dozen states for the November election. Click here to read more!

Oct. 22, 2020 Q13 Fox - Seattle

Local ballot box company helps secure the vote

[Video] Q13's Jennifer Lee reports from Puyallup where a local ballot box company is helping secure the vote. Click here to see more! [Video]

Oct. 19, 2020 The Fabricator

Ballot box fabricator navigates unprecedented demand for early voting

One fabricator, Laserfab Inc., has been quietly making ballot drop-off boxes since 2010, and as of June of this year, for obvious reasons, demand has been through the roof. Handling such a demand spike would have been challenging enough without the pandemic. Add COVID-19 and wild demand swings from its larger customers, and the juggling act gets even more complicated. Like many other shops, though, Laserfab has years of juggling experience. Click here to read more!

Oct. 12, 2020 National Association of Counties

Ballot boxes are not easy targets

“While it did knock the box out of the ground, the SUV was high centered on it, and it totaled the SUV,” said Thurston County Auditor Mary Hall. “The public works staffer just stood it back up in the morning. It had tire tracks on it, but it didn’t have a dent. Not so much for the SUV.”
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Oct. 9, 2020 The Beacon-News

How are ballot drop boxes protected from tampering, human error, weather? County clerks explain.

One company, which has sold boxes to DuPage and Will counties, says their product is designed to resist everything from tampering to human error to rain. During a collision between a vehicle and their drop box, the box is likely to fare better, they said. Click here to read more!

Sept. 28, 2020 23ABC News

Ballot drop boxes are more common in this election

Well, we spoke with one of the nation's largest makers of ballot drop boxes, Larry Olson of Laserfab, to find out what's done to make sure they are secure. "We've got boxes in 13 states, we've done everything we can to minimize the opportunities for anybody to tamper to with the boxes. We've made them secure enough that you can run into them with a truck and they won't open up." Click here to read more!

Sept. 18, 2020 Aljazeera America

US elections 2020: Ballot drop boxes installed across states

[VIDEO]They will be emptied twice a day when early voting starts, with 24-hour surveillance. The US Postal Service has warned that millions of mail-in votes may not arrive in time to be counted for November 3, the Election Day. States are scrambling to install ballot drop boxes to encourage early voting. Click here to see more! [VIDEO]

Aug. 11, 2020 NPR

Ballot Drop Boxes Become Latest Front In Voting Legal Fights

lson said he is confident that his company's containers are more secure than the average mailbox, noting that the steel boxes are designed to be both water- and tamper-proof. The most popular one weighs about 600 pounds. "And they're bolted to the ground, so it's not really something anybody can move easily," he said. Click here to read more!

Oct. 17, 2019 Crosscut

These ballot boxes keep your vote safe from fire, rain and rampaging SUVs

The SUV barreled into the ballot drop box in Lacey at a particularly inopportune time. It was the day before the Aug. 6 primary election, and voters’ ballots had already been piling up inside the collection box by City Hall. Elections officials, however, had planned for this. Though the impact knocked the steel box on its side, workers were able to prop it up and return it to service. Click here to read more!