My Obama sign only lasted one hour on my lawn. Got another, tied it to my fence, Still there!

Nationally this has been a huge problem this year, certainly worse than I've even heard of. With social media, a lot of the thieves and vandals stealing or defacing the signs and sometimes doing further damage to property are reporting their acts on Twitter and Tumblr and even Facebook. These self-reports sometime include pictures at times. Because of this type of 'bragging', people are getting caught, and even prosecuted.

How about the defaced Romney sign on Sugartown Rd. I looks like some uncivil citizen decided to use a roller with white pain on it. It speaks volumes about the perpetrator. As the president would say, that is one voter who got their revenge.

I can't wait for the election to be over so that ALL the signs disappear, the negative ads are gone fom TV and radio, the political phone calls and canvassers stop waking me up from my post surgical recovery. NONE of these invasions of privacy and/ or sanity are going to change my vote. Ditto for the non-stop mailings.

Sandy?

Someone used a stencil and black paint to pain the devil on my Romney sign. A lot of work and thought went into that vandalism, only wish that the criminal would have used that time to read up on each candidate's platforms...

I'm concerned about the lack of civility and denying my right of free speech. If I can respect others opinions and leave their signs alone, WHY can't the other side be respectful enough to do the same? Numerous signs I put up in Chesterbrook have been totally removed. If this is illegal, why isn't the media making this more clear????

Candidate signs are one thing, and it is a first amendment right we should all respect, however, there are other signs, posted in my neighbor's yard which are mean spirited, nasty, and selfish (IMHO) and this does not bode well for healing our nation after this election. Personally I would not want to have anything to do with a person/family that is so nasty and mean to post the kind of signs they have chosen to display. Clearly they want everyone to know how they feel, and now I know. They are not the kind of people I would want to be neighborly to.

I personally haven't seen any nasty Republican signs. Either way, the negativity is not good and is not the way to promote good values to our children. Why can't everyone "play nicely"? We're all Americans. Vote and do what you think is best for OUR country.

Hm. Perhaps I should remove that Obama magnet from the back of our car...

I really don't care about what signs people have in their yard or on their car, we are talking about senseless vandalism here. Civility is not lost when people post signs in their yard during a political campaign which express their opinion, it is lost when people resort to violence and vandalism to take away one's rights.

As the Democratic Co-Committeeperson in Precinct 605 I've replaced every sign that I put out - at least once... That is why I always buy extra... Stealing signs seems to be what teenagers do...

I happened to drive past shortly after 4 Monday afternoon to see a woman placing a homemade sign in support of Obama on the media of Chesterbrook Blvd a few hundred yards from Valley Forge Road. It was a polite sign but not constructed to hold up to the wind. It was essentially two pieces of poster board attached to a thin metal frame. It was still standing as I drove back past a short time later, but if that one particular sign is blown apart, it was probably the force of the wind. Not so for most of the other "downed" signs I've seen around TE... they were literally uprooted. Once the polls close and the election is over it would be a great service if anyone who put a lawn sign up on public property would be kind enough to go back and take it down. You'll save the public works crews time and the taxpayers some money.

Both parties seem to be taking down signs on Chesterbrook blvd. I saw some older lady in the act in the middle of the day across from the shopping center. I'm not sure why Chesterbrook seems to be getting hit so hard with sign vandalism.

There are 2 ladies in Chesterbrook who feel it is their duty to take ALL campaign signs down of both parties. We have run across them over several election cycles. Guess they think the meridian on Chesterbrook Blvd. is part of the covenant of" no signs" in Green Hills and condos (which it is not). Adams drive meridian is an off limits area. I make an effort to put up any campaign signs that are down next to ones I am putting up. Don't want anyone to think I am defacing property. Let's adhere to the 1st amendment. Couldn't keep my Obama signs upanywhere =lost 12.

Sign vandalism is wrong. If you don't like the other party's sign, put up twice as many of your own party.

I do find it interesting that so many of the signs this year -- notably the anti-Casey and the anti-Obama signs -- are paid for by the pro-Romney PACs that are paying students to put them up. They have more money than volunteers, which says a lot about their organization.

My Romney/Ryan sign was stolen. Now I've got one that says, "Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama." If that disappears, I've got another one. And I can get more. This is stupid. Whichever ones are stolen, it just means more money to the campaign as we go buy replacements.

Wow -- one last political stab by both sides complaining about how their candidate (by name) sign was taken down. No sense leaving the impression that only one party does it. We have all lost sight of the fact that WE ARE CHOOSING LEADERS. We are not picking teams. We are not educating anyone about anything with the thousands of useless signs posted in medians. If you put one on your lawn, you are communicating YOUR endorsement. But even to the woman above who doesn't want to know her neighbors because of what their signs say -- puhleeazze.........these are political signs, not swastikas. The more passion, the more punch! The vandalism is misdirected competition -- "you took down mine, I took down yours" I assure you has been in play. I am ashamed of our community that we have worked so hard to polarize this election -- yet again. This isn't Phillies - Yankees. We all have to live with the result. It's an election -- not a fight. Why does hatred seem to fuel passion? When did we become so militant in our language? Who exactly wins when both sides are sure the other candidate will destroy us?

Sign stealing is not just for Political signs......... who keeps stealing our Tarleton School Open House signs?

GOP Losers!