Official: Toilet display mocking mail-in voting is a crime

[TexasTowelie]

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

[Laelth]

1. That's a tough one.

Looks like protected, political speech to me.



-Laelth

[stopdiggin]

7. it is. and it's not even a particularly close call

humorless official is wasting everybody's time.

[Laelth]

8. Well, it soliciting a crime.

Humorless official notes that it would be a crime to actually receive ballots in this way. The police say they’re investigating.



-Laelth

[stopdiggin]

9. satire. Think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

the only crime here is a BIG one against common sense.
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[AkFemDem]

2. Oh come ON!!!

[Statistical]

3. It is a toilet. It is clearly satire.

I find it hard to believe even a first time voter would be confused enough to think they deposit their ballots in a toilet on some guys lawn.

[torius]

4. You're not allowed to joke about bombs when you're in an airport

no matter how silly.
People might think this is a fun way to vote and that person will deliver the ballots. Trumpsters are that dumb.

[stopdiggin]

6. sorry. not buying it.

and this "election official" just bought themselves a whole boatload of ridicule and derision. IMO, richly deserved. Little or no sympathy here.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Calling all MI trump voters...this is EXACTLY where a ballot for trump should go!

[Atticus]

10. I'd betcha you one of those small "Trump Baby" balloons would fit in there!

Just sayin'----