Mayor Doug Diny of Wausau, Wis., said the City Council should have been consulted before the installation. The Wisconsin Supreme Court had said authority rested with the city clerk.

The mayor of the central Wisconsin city of Wausau hauled away a ballot drop box, an action that has angered some local residents. Mayor Doug Diny posed for a photo sporting a hard hat and work gloves as he wheeled away the city’s only ballot drop box outside City Hall.

Wausau Mayor Doug Diny put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly to cart away a drop box outside City Hall. The move is the latest example in swing state Wisconsin of the fight over whether communities will allow absentee ballot drop boxes.