Election Sign Tampering

Harold Ball | Oct 01, 2015

Last week I witnessed a young lady park her red car on the side of Westport Rd at the intersection with Road 38. She exited her car, and approached the intersection on foot wearing a red dress. She stopped at the side of Road 38 with her back toward several election signs. However when the traffic cleared she quickly turned and wrestled with the sign of Conservative candidate Scott Reid. She tore it from its frame, quickly tucking it under her arm, retreating to her vehicle, threw the sign inside and quickly sped away in her car.

I was appalled at this. So much so I called Scott Reid’s office and spoke with one of Mr. Reid’s courteous volunteers who told me that tampering with election signs is a criminal offence. Had I known this at the time I would have tried to get a license plate number & better description of the car.

I can’t imagine that campaign teams working for any party would condone such behavior. However if they do condone such activity, what does it say about their integrity and what would it be like if they ran our government?

If this person was not a campaign team worker but acting on her own she might better channel her motivation to a campaign team: where she would learn the ethics, protocol and the laws governing an election campaign.