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Official: Toilet display mocking mail-in voting is a crime
A political display is set up in the lawn of a home on West Columbia Street in Mason, Mich., on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. 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 how mail-in voting works. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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.
Read more: https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Official-Toilet-display-mocking-mail-in-voting-15580411.php
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Looks like protected, political speech to me.
-Laelth
Humorless official notes that it would be a crime to actually receive ballots in this way. The police say they’re investigating.
-Laelth
the only crime here is a BIG one against common sense.
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