Official: Toilet display mocking mail-in voting is a crime
Sep. 19, 2020
MASON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan resident's apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official.
The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says, “Place mail in ballots here.”
Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over the display, saying it could mislead people who aren't familiar with the voting system.
“It is a felony to take illegal possession of an absentee ballot,” Byrum said Friday.
“Elections in this country are to be taken seriously and there are many people who are voting by mail for the first time this election,” she said.
Police told the AP that the complaint is being investigated.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that voting by mail could lead to fraud and spoil the election, making distorted claims that elections officials fear could cause anxiety and confusion among voters.
It's the “safest way to vote during the pandemic,” Byrum said.
She didn't identify the person who lives at the address. The lawn also has a sign that calls for the recall of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
No one answered the door Friday night, the Lansing State Journal reported.
More than 2 million Michigan voters could cast absentee ballots after changes in election law. Separately, a judge on Friday said absentee ballots postmarked by Nov. 2 can be counted if received within 14 days after the Nov. 3 election.
Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Bicycle Bill
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Re: Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
If someone is stupid enough to put their ballot into a toilet on someone's front lawn, I think that's prima facie evidence that they are not mentally competent enough to be allowed to vote in the first place.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
Seconded Bill, and I'm ripping off your quote for FB.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
Will Trump experience the flush of victory?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: Your Vote Down The Toilet -or- Dems Have No Humor
I have frequently said what we have is a choice between evil and stupid. And that is especially true in my state.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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