Republican DA Toney will oversee investigation into Wausau ballot drop box removal [View all]
Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney has been appointed to oversee the investigation of Wausau Mayor Doug Diny’s removal of a ballot drop box ahead of the 2024 election.
Toney, who ran as a Republican for state attorney general in 2022, previously praised a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision banning the use of drop boxes.
Diny made national news in Sept. 2024 when he had himself photographed wearing a hard hat while carting a locked ballot drop box away from the steps of Wausau City Hall. The drop box was empty of ballots at the time.
The photo-op came came two months after the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority reversed a near-total ban on the receptacles that the then-conservative-controlled court had put in place two years prior.
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