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Diabolical... but I first heard of this many years ago in "Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner," by Donald Westlake. Our hero is a prankster but no real criminal. However, he's now (comically) in a criminal gang and must commit a crime to make money.

He comes up with the idea of putting a sign on the bank deposit box "Out of Order - Use Temporary Box Below" with arrow to a box he found and manages to collect a deposit bag.

[Dave Wright]

The only way this scam works is if legitimate likely Republican voters (seniors, white, married, etc) are duped into putting their ballots in these boxes. They will never see a polling place if they do this.

[null and void]

Back in the day, I’d left more than one message in a store demo tape recorder: “Prease help, prease, I am being herd plisoner in a Japanese tape lecorder factory...”