“If you go to Payless, or go wherever, it says sample and you usually can take a sample,” Savage said, according to Fox59. “So that is the way I took it. I thought they were fake fucking ballots.”

Speaking with Fox59, Savage claimed that he was an elected official and that he was “just trying to fight for our country.” (Savage, a businessman, came sixth out of eight candidates in the Republican primary.)

Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said that Savage’s act was a deliberate attempt to “undermine our election process.”

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Is this dude stealing shoes from Payless?

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There is a local liquor store called Payless Liquor… Got a strong feeling that’s who he is talking about

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Yes

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Well until they had to close up shop because he stole all their shoes.

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“Are you guys on MySpace, or…”

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I switched to Spacebook

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We get it, you’re from space Australia

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Well yeah. This guy took all the “free samples”. Of course it closed down.

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I’d hate to defend this chucklefuck, but Payless is the name for some Kroger grocery stores in Indiana.

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There is a liquor store chain called Payless Liquor

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If the old owner of Payless Liquors was still alive, he’d probably give free booze to this bozo for stealing ballots

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Shitty thing done shittily. Still more worried about the ones who aren’t incompetent clowns but good to know that whoever’s supervising isn’t completely blind.

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He is full of shit, for sure. But let’s say we take his claim at face value, that level of stupidity has no business in political power. So, lose-lose.

That is on par with most of political scandals and the defenses given, they are either clearly in on the fuckery, or so monumentally stupid that they were unaware of it happening around them or that it was illegal/immoral. There is no answer that gets them off the hook and provides confidence in their abilities.

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It is weird that they were called samples. But he can’t have been “trying to fight for our country” while simultaneously believing they were fake ballots, so, get jailed loser

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