MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) – With Election Day fast approaching, the sign ninjas have only a few nights left to take action.
They work best after the sun sets, gathering to trade and assemble campaign signs and then venturing out in the dark to install them along main thoroughfares. For weeks now leading up to Nov. 3, they’ve been planting signs across their districts, and then returning to do it again each time they get stolen.
Connie Di Cicco has been putting up election signs for three years in Cobb County, Georgia, first helping with Democrat Jon Ossoff’s campaign for Congress in the 2017 special election.
This time, it’s her name on the signs. Di Cicco, who’s running to represent Georgia’s 44th House District, says she likes the idea of residents waking up to see signs blanketing their neighborhoods.
“When you see a sign, I think that that’s almost like a little nametag,” she said. “It’s a great introduction to a candidate.”