Pollity poll poll

[doc_strange]

A lot people are reporting the obviously partisan removal of political signs in MA with the upcoming election. I recall a lot of sign shenanigans around these parts in the 2008 elections. I'm curious about my readers and their general take on such things. So, a POLL!

*trumpets*

Open to all. Specifics private to encourage a little more honesty on the gnarlier questions.

[Poll #1509021]
Please do discuss your take on your answers, the questions, and what you think about such acts and so on. Keep it polite!

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

My "other" (not really a none of the above): "Use someone I found defacing a sign on my property as a baton fighting dummy".

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I would not deface signs or steal them from private or public property, and I would not put up signs of my own on private property I didn't own, but I would put up signs of my own on public property.

I did that in grad school, actually; someone put up a bunch of signs in the humanities building advertising the next meeting of the Young Socialists, so I printed up signs advertising the next meeting of the Objectivist club and taped them up right next to the socialist meeting signs.

[liana]

3. Other - I would curse under my breath at it. I would put a sign of my own next to it on public property.

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

My "none of the above" (which I'm also interpreting as "other") includes two things:
1) If the sign I didn't like is on public property, I would certainly put up a sign of my preference, if it is legal to do so.
2) If the sign is on public property, but is posted in violation of relevant local election laws, I would report it to the local Board of Elections (who, of course, would do nothing) and the candidate's campaign office (who, of course, would also do nothing) - if it was still posted illegally after a few days, I'd pick it up and throw it away, since an illegally posted campaign sign is trash just as much as illegally posted advertising.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I'm a big believer in freedom of expression is for everyone, so I would leave the sign be and put my own view on display on my property.

[biguglymandoll.livejournal.com]

During the Obama campaign, the neighbors across the street from us had McCain signs; we had Obama signs. Both faced the main road, and pretty much faced one another. One morning we woke to find our sign gone. With some amusement, we noticed the neighbor's sign was gone also.

My wife called the police to report it, and was asked "unofficially" which side our sign had supported. They were keeping an office poll to see who was winning in the sign-stealing contests. ;-) At the time of our call (mid-October 2008), it was about 50-50.

After the *second* sign was stolen, my wife hand-painted a sign *inside* the window, saying "Republicans for Voldemort". We had people stopping to take pictures...