Lawn-sign wars: US voters use trackers, cameras to deter political theft
Kamala Harris signs disappearing from her Springfield, Missouri, front yard, Laura McCaskill taped a tracking device to one to see where it might end up.
That led her to a blue Kia sedan in a nearby town, where a young man admitted he had stolen her sign, along with dozens of others, according to a video shot by McCaskill. «Um, yeah, so if you want them back they're right there,» he said as he stood next to a trunk filled with Harris signs.
As the Nov. 5 election between Harris and Republican Donald Trump draws near, people across the U.S. are reporting a rash of yard-sign thefts — and turning to a range of remedies to stop them, from surveillance cameras and GPS trackers to low-tech solutions like glitter and hot peppers to deter would-be thieves.
«The sign game has changed. You can no longer steal and get away with it because guys like us are taking it pretty seriously,» said Vincent Panico, a Republican deputy mayor in Readington, New Jersey, who used an Apple AirTag to track a missing yard sign ahead of a primary election earlier this year.
Police found it in the garage of a member of the town committee, John Albanese, a fellow Republican who has feuded with Panico in an intra-party power struggle. Albanese has pleaded not guilty.
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