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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.”

The move, which sparked a protest in the city Tuesday night and anger among drop box advocates, is the latest example in swing state Wisconsin of the fight over whether communities will allow absentee ballot drop boxes.


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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 104 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's the whole goal this election. The conservatives are going to interfere with the election in as many places as they possibly can. All of the chaos they create they'll then leverage to refuse to certify the election, then they'll move proceed with a contigent election because the chaos they've created means we don't have enough actual electoral votes to complete the election, then they'll all vote Trump, and then someone who lost the electoral college and the popular vote will have stolen the election.

We're absolutely fucked.

EDIT: I wonder if it's possible for the current administration to do anything to impact this potential. You'd think the American people would support an executive order blocking contingent elections as it robs them of their vote. Short of something like that happening, I'm terrified that there's nothing that can be done to stop them.

Do you think it would help or hurt the situation if Biden were to make a state of the union address and call out the imminent threat of Republican-led chaos causing this situation? Would shedding bright light publicly on it cause the people responsible to scurry away like the cockroaches they are?