As reported, the mayor of Wausau, Wisconsin, Doug Diny, decided to pull a juvenile political stunt by stealing the city’s ballot drop box.
He held the ballot box ransom for a full week, preventing citizens who use the drop box from voting. Then as the backlash kept building, he surrendered his hostage to the clerk who had the drop box returned to its rightful place, secured to the ground, and open for business. People were already taking advantage of it even as news crews were arriving.
Meanwhile, Diny is trying to downplay his criminal conduct. But he still can’t keep his story straight. While he has been opposed to drop boxes all along, he says that now it will go before the city council, which he now claims is what he really wanted all alongA:
