The mayor of a central Wisconsin city who ran for office on his opposition to absentee ballot drop boxes said Wednesday he did nothing wrong when he put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly to cart away a drop box outside City Hall.
Wausau Mayor Doug Diny posed for a picture Sunday to memorialize his removal of the city’s lone drop box that had been put outside City Hall around the same time late last week that absentee ballots were sent to voters. The city’s election clerk, Kaitlyn Bernarde, said she has reported the issue to the Marathon County district attorney a well as the state elections commission.
“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.’”
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.
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.
So, jail for the mayor?
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.
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.
Almost got the working class look right… just needs hi-vis west and steel tip boots
