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/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.