Earlier this year, the city of Wausau, Wisconsin, made a grave error when they inadvisably elected MAGA election denier Doug Diny as mayor. Diny made it clear during his campaign that he was going to wage a Quixotic war against free and fair elections and that he would tilt at all the ballot drop boxes he had to to make sure of that.
He made good on that promise on Sunday, when he went to City Hall and stole the city's ballot drop box and put it to an undisclosed location inside City Hall. He has already offered three different rationales for his actions:
“I was uncomfortable with certain staff actions that ran counter to previous agreements I had with the clerk on the matter,” Diny told Wausau Pilot early Tuesday. “I was hired to tighten things up at city hall. This action is consistent with my overall position and what I heard from residents when I was knocking on doors.”
Hours later, in an interview with WSAU, Diny backtracked on the move being related to policy and claimed he moved the ballot box because he was worried it would be “taken and thrown into the river.”
Diny later explained that he was working on Sunday, September 22nd, when he just so happened to notice the drop box was not secured to the ground and took it upon himself to move it to a more secure location.
This alone opens another cornucopia of questions he needs to answer.
