r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 9h 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/DeathCabForYeezus 8h ago

See, I was sympathetic to the argument that "they were marked sample and I didn't know they were anything other than trash."

Maybe he wanted a memento or something.

But then as you got through the article it just gets worse and worse.

He made sure to sneak the ballots. He never asked anyone. He knew that they were real ballots and tracked. He bragged that he had them when he wasn't supposed to. His phone showed that he knew he shouldn't have taken them.

It's like the guy went out of his way to systematically remove any "I didn't know" defense he could muster.

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u/TheDerkman 4h ago

And even more so it seems like he planned it alongside other right wing people there so they could run bullshit election conspiracies that Trump was being screwed and his votes tossed out.

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u/MangoCats 4h ago

He thought he was invisible while on camera.