Republican DA Toney will oversee investigation into Wausau ballot drop box removal

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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