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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.

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[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately sounds like there was no ballots in it yet.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

He couldn’t know that.

This is at least election interference. And attempted ballot theft.

Also interference in government processes.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.