A self-described “MAGA candidate” turned himself in to police Tuesday after security cameras allegedly captured him stuffing a pair of ballots into his pocket during a test of voting machines he was appointed to oversee.
The straight-out-of-TV incident allegedly took place in central Indiana, where Larry Lee Savage Jr. lost a Republican primary earlier this year while running to represent the state’s 5th congressional district.
Despite winning a measly 1.9 percent of the vote , the 51-year-old was still called upon to observe a public test of voting machines in Madison County—a procedure that’s done to instill confidence in the machines’ accuracy with media members, candidates, and local political figures reportedly in attendance.
It was during this test where cops say Savage was captured on camera folding and stuffing a pair of ballots into his pocket on Oct. 3, the Indiana Star reported, citing a probable cause affidavit. That likely caused concern among officials conducting the test, as it suggested the machines failed to count two of the 136 ballots that were inserted into them.