Nov 16, 2015 2 min read

Something positive needs to be done about political campaign signs along roads that remain long after Election Day has come and gone.

For example, the cloverleaf at routes 19 and 519 is polluted with them, and it’s been ten days since Election Day. Although an eyesore during campaigns, they are tolerated. However, they linger much too long after the campaign is done, and I suspect they are left for PennDOT workers or township employees to remove and destroy.

Why not require all political candidates place a cash deposit with the election board – say, $500 – then a “bounty” would be paid to citizen collectors who would make the effort to round up the signs and turn them in for the cash? Sure, it would be a “free-for all” by the collectors who would have the gumption to go on the hunt, but perhaps the candidates’ committee workers would be the first to retrieve them immediately after the election is over, and get a refund from the deposit. Reasonable rules and regulations would have to be adopted so that the program would be run fairly. But I see these campaign signs as nothing but grossly abandoned litter along our highways after their purpose has been fulfilled.

Ronald J. Yamka

Canonsburg