The libs are having an absolute meltdown after a Wisconsin mayor fulfilled his campaign promise to oppose unsecured ballot drop boxes.
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.
The dude knows how to campaign and take advantage of a moment, doesn't he?
Diny campaigned on opposing public drop boxes for ballots. There was just one drop box and it was outside city hall, so he just carted it into the building.
Promises kept!
All you have to do is walk inside the building so officials can make sure you aren't dropping off a bunch of dead voters' ballots marked "(D)" in the dead of night.
But in lefty parlance, he's dIsEnFrAnChIsInG voters.
So they're launching an investigation (no joke!).
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, in guidance sent in July to all 1,800-plus clerks who administer elections in Wisconsin, said it was up to municipal clerks to determine the location of drop boxes ...
Diny said that he and the city clerk never discussed the drop box before it was placed outside City Hall late last week. Diny said he decided Sunday to act when he realized the drop box was 'not secure.'
Diny made the move before the box was officially unlocked, so no ballots had been deposited yet.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has a series of recommendations to ensure the safety of drop boxes not located inside buildings, including that they be under video surveillance, secured, in a well-lit area and a clear chain of custody is created for the retrieval of ballots. The Wausau drop box was under video surveillance but had not yet been bolted down.
Diny insisted he did nothing wrong.
The problem here is this is all based on recommendations from Wisconsin and from the feds. It's against the law in Wisconsin, a felony in fact, "to impede or prevent 'the free exercise of the franchise at an election.'"
So it's going to come down to whether or not Wisconsin decides that it somehow impedes or prevents the vote to have to walk inside City Hall during business hours.
While Diny said he is generally opposed to drop boxes, he also said he's not taking a position on whether it should be in place for the ballots that are in voters' hands now and can be returned until Election Day.
'As it stands now, I don't have a dog in the hunt,' Diny said. 'I want it to be done properly and with the proper input and consent of citizens.'
Dude is literally just trying to make a point that it is probably not a good idea to have an unsecured ballot drop box just sitting on the sidewalk.
The Dems want that to be illegal.
Tells ya what you need to know, eh?
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