My Last Post on Yard Signs (this election)

I am preparing to go to bed, planning to be up tomorrow at 3am to put up yard signs at various polling places for my favorite candidates (who will remain anonymous). Over the years I have noticed that yard sign etiquette has not been followed by many campaigns including some of the current ones on both sides or the parity.

Here are the most common issues I have noticed (some of which are illegal, as if that stops some people):

• Sandwiching/ Blocking opponent's signs. This is where one candidate's signs obscure that of another by placing signs within inches of the opposition.
• Stealing/ Mutilating/ Defacing signs. This need not be described.
• Too many signs. The best ratio is 2 signs per entrance to the parking lot of the and 2 for the entrance to the building. Any more than that is seen as overbearing.
• Within the chute. Signs are not allowed to be within 50 feet of the chute/ entrance to the polling location.

The main thing for campaigns to remember is the impression that these tactics leave the voters as they enter the polls.

Do you want them to summarize a year's worth of campaigning as childish, amatuerish, vindictive, and unethical?

I didn't think so.