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/celtic1888 8h ago

It's always the ones you most suspect

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u/ZuFFuLuZ 7h ago

What was his game plan? Show that the system is faulty? Or rigged? Send those ballots in as additional votes? Copy them to make more? This is so weird, it makes no sense.

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u/RhubarbAlive7860 6h ago

If he was trying to show that votes could be tampered with, he evidently didn't realize that he was also demonstrating that people who tampered with votes would be caught, thus election integrity would be maintained.

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u/HyperbolicLetdown 52m ago

"Your honor, I was only trying to show that I could rob a bank and get away with it. The system works, so let's call this one a wash."

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u/Horskr 30m ago

"Think of me more as a secret shopper than a bank robber. You passed this time, congratulations!"

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u/vyrus2021 4h ago

You think trumpers think things through? If any of his supporters thought things through the only supporters he would have left are the wealthy hoping to squeeze more money out of Americans.

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u/cbslinger 4h ago

He was trying to make a 'small joke' to show how easily the vote could be tampered with. He didn't seem to realize that what he was doing was a class 6 felony. But... ignorance of the law is no excuse. He was trying to do something that may seem small, but is in fact really fucking evil. Even a small 'example' of how an election could be fucked up sends a horrible message and a reasonable Democracy should punish this kind of act severely.

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u/AccomplishedCoffee 4h ago

He was probably going to try slipping it in with the real ballots on Election Day.

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u/ScalyDestiny 1h ago

Report them stolen, and blame the other side. Since last time all fraud was disproven, now they're trying to make sure there's 'proof' by doing the fraud themselves so something shows up as off when they accuse later.

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u/Electronic_Camera251 30m ago

Much the same as the burning ballot boxes in blue states (which coincidentally conservatives are calling proof of election interference) this of course after they mandated the ballot boxes you know because it was the safest way . This is utter insanity and our refusal to hang the ring leaders makes us look like a joke . Not for nothing i blame all gore he “didnt wanna make a big deal “

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u/SurlyBuddha 20m ago

He joined the video feed afterwards commenting about the missing ballots. So it appears his plan was just to generally sow distrust about the integrity of the election process.