Here's a fun story from Washington State about campaign signs clean-up. It's pretty indepth and the author did a great job getting into the meat of the subject. A fun read!
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Post-election cleanup begins
November 10, 2009
By Warren Kagarise
Election Day is done, but the symbols remain: campaign signs planted by candidates and volunteers near busy intersections, along bustling streets and in front lawns from the Issaquah Highlands to Squak Mountain.
Candidates realize residents tolerate the signs during campaign season, but after Election Day, the placards become visual pollution.
A few candidates mobilized volunteers to yank signs from the ground before midnight Election Day. City Council candidate Nathan Perea started uprooting his signs Election Day afternoon. Councilman-elect Tola Marts left a victory party and gathered his signs in the election night chill.
Perea said he empathized with residents tired of the signs. The compact campaign ads sprouted en masse during the summer.
“I appreciate the clutter being gone as soon as possible,” he said.
Perea blanketed Issaquah with distinctive green-and-orange signs emblazoned with a pine tree logo. In the end, however, Perea said the signs had little effect. Marts won the Position 7 council contest by a landslide.
Marnie Maraldo, a successful school board candidate, said she understood why the signs must come down soon after Election Day.
“I do sympathize with the public who has had to look at them since April or May,” she said.
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