“Are you serious? It was clearly proof for payment. Normal rational people do not take pictures of themselves dropping ballots into an unguarded collection box. People who need to *PROVE* they did it, do that, but normal people do not.”
Your statement is unsubstantiated conjecture. It would be laughed at in court if it were presented as evidence. You feel this is how people should be behaving, but your opinion really is not relevant. There are many different possible reasons for them to have behaved the way they did. Your sense of propriety is not a valid argument, nor is it evidence.
As is the claim he was doing it for "Family Members." I've seen no proof that this is true, but for some reason you want to swallow this claim without proof.
It would be laughed at in court if it were presented as evidence.
I dare say you will not likely find anyone on Free Republic that has a greater contempt for the court system than myself. Our court system has long ago become very dysfunctional and the law means whatever the Judge wants it to mean at any given time.
It is unfair, biased, and mostly incompetent.
Years ago I heard on the radio an account of a man who having spent 17 years in prison being exonerate by DNA analysis. His DNA did not match that of the perpetrator, and he was therefore *NOT* the criminal. They convicted the wrong man.
Upon hearing this, I asked myself, "If the man didn't do it, how in hell did they prove he did?"
It should be impossible to "prove" a man committed a crime that he did not actually commit, yet here we have courts, time and again bungling trials and convicting innocent people of crimes.
If people respect "courts" and "judges", then they simply have no idea how incompetent and dysfunctional these institutions really are.
There are many different possible reasons for them to have behaved the way they did.
All of them highly improbable but one. The man was taking pictures to prove to his paymaster that he did it. That's the only one that makes sense of the event.