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People burn absentee ballot applications at the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker on June 12, 2020.
by: WOODTV.com staff
Posted: Jun 12, 2020 / 10:28 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 12, 2020 / 11:09 PM EDT
WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) People unhappy with absentee ballot applications being mailed to registered voters in Michigan came to burn theirs at the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker.
On Friday, Operation Incinerator invited people who feel Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is overstepping by sending applications without requests to bring it to the arena.
We are not here to protest ballots, there for voting. Our protest is for the applications to be sent to those who have not even requested them, said Michael Farage, president of the Grand Rapids Taxpayers Association.
Benson said sending the applications will ensure people can safely vote during the ongoing pandemic.
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(on edit: "We are not here to protest ballots, there for voting." I hate when a legit news org makes grammatical errors. )
oasis
(49,389 posts)True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)They're really stretching for something to be pissed off about.
retread
(3,762 posts)the week is not over yet!
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Lol
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Let them go to polls where most machines don't work. Thousands of people did that in Atlanta.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)burning their own applications? May their poll lines be long and their machines faulty. These people really don't know how to make a statement.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)And, can't go. They could have voted by absentee, but they protested away their simple way to vote.
Idiots.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)applications for ballots, and not other peoples' actual ballots -- so far.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)Please proceed
if..fish..had..wings
(664 posts)for them to protest the "unfair" election is to simply not participate.
That would send a powerful message.
Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)30% of them are sick with the 'rona on election day.
hatrack
(59,587 posts).
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)eShirl
(18,494 posts)at least recycle them
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)lark
(23,105 posts)Be sure to breathe and cough on those next to you at your ballot burnings.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)... then I don't mind.
lark
(23,105 posts)who of course are ok to use them.
Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)Every single day they probably get unwanted/unsolicited mail, but this is what sets them off? No one is making them apply for an absentee ballot. They are so stupid they can't even see how stupid this is.
I'm embarrassed for Michigan sometimes.
Hotler
(11,425 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Many more will apply to vote this way because it is spelled out in simple terms. Easy, peasy. No. We cant have that, now can we??
I do have one slight quibble with the headline. It almost makes it seem like they obtained a bunch of applications (from others) and burned those. Which is probably a crime. So it was slightly misleading since they were burning their own applications. Seems like a lot of nothing to me designed to get attention. They could have just as easily shredded them at home if they did not want to apply. Wonder whose brilliant idea it was to turn it into a spectacle???