“This is no different than the maintenance guy moving it out there,” Diny said Wednesday. “I’m a member of staff. There’s nothing nefarious going on here. I’m hoping for a good result.”
But you're not the fucking maintenance guy, you're a candidate moving voting equipment for a goddamn photoshoot. The only possible good result is your defeat.
Seems like he recorded his own evidence about election interference. Now the question is whether other officials are too far up his ass for charges
Reminds me of that MF DOOM song:
"Sit in the court and be their own star witness. / 'Do you see the perpetrator?' / 'Yeah, I'm right here.'"
MF Doom
All-caps when you spell the man name.
RIP
Ah, of course. Noted and fixed.
Tldr:
Mayor is a Trumper against these boxes.
As soon as it was sat outside and before it could be fastened to the ground and unlocked, the mayor stole it and put it inside because "someone else might have stolen it"....
And is now refusing to let it be moved back and secured to the ground, because that ruins his excuse for stealing it
I vote he get charged with the appropriate crime of stealing ballots and the drop box.
Unfortunately sounds like there was no ballots in it yet.
He couldn’t know that.
This is at least election interference. And attempted ballot theft.
Also interference in government processes.
The article implies that he did this stunt right after the box was placed, so he was probably waiting for it and would know that it was empty.
Regardless, I agree that at a minimum this is an election interface but I doubt they could make a solid case for ballot theft.
on the photo op photo in one of the articles, it showed a message posted on the box thst said the box was not in service or something. It appeared to have a locked cover.
“This is no different than the maintenance guy moving it out there,”
Well then, I expect the mayor to get the same punishment as the maintenence guy would have if he chose to intentionally steal the box instead of delivering it.
So, jail for the mayor?
These people are enemies of democracy and this kind of behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. If you’re trying to disrupt the voting process, you should be arrested and banned from any political office. Protesting policies you don’t like is one thing, but it should never get to the point where you’re preventing other people from casting their vote.
the democracy prevention party in action
they will do anything to keep people from voting.
I am beginning to see rhetoric saying that democracy is harmful on some of my feeds, so yeah.
I'm fortunate that I have the means and ability to go to my polling place with ease, though I'd prefer to vote with an absentee ballot because that's easy.
But this ratfuckery stuff like this is why I'm 100% going to vote in person.
I love my state. We have been 100% mail-in ballots since 2011. There are multiple drop boxes in every district. Same day voter registration. You can even register online.
Almost got the working class look right.. just needs hi-vis west and steel tip boots
Classic FAFO.
There's no finding out here, at least not yet.
Yes. He is about to.
Not likely. It's a very red area.
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