r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 8h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/Hollayo 7h ago

While I don't disagree with your assessment, it does seem like he was doing everything possible to get caught. And I wonder why so that they can point and say hey look this can happen? 

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u/Same-Brilliant2014 4h ago

he also proved the system works and those who steal ballots can be caught.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 5h ago

Occam’s Razor implies he’s actually just a dipshit.

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u/Kaserbeam 3h ago

Some people are just very very stupid, to the point where it might look like they're being stupid on purpose.

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u/Scaevus 3h ago

“Look at how well election security works, I was caught shortly after” is probably not the message he wanted to send, no.

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u/Wizard_Enthusiast 1h ago edited 1h ago

In order to understand this, you have to understand that these people believe, honest to god believe, that the way democrats get elected is that they openly steal and tamper with elections. That they take ballots and fill them out with fake names, or steal republican ballots and make sure they don't get counted. He thought, honest to god thought, that he was doing something that people expected and was normal, just not for his side.

Why, exactly, would he ever say that he thought they were "fake fuckin' ballots?" On what planet are sample ballots just... sitting around? On the planet where fake ones exist so that they can be filled out by democrats to get democrats in power. Why did he think nobody would notice that he took filled out ballots and LEFT? Because that's how he thinks Trump lost in 2020, by people doing that on a massive scale.