Kendall Qualls Gets Roasted After Asking Voters to 'PicsArt' Their Ballots, Meme Historians Call It Peak American Irony
In the latest episode of "Politicians Discovering Technology," Alaska GOP candidate Kendall Qualls has accidentally become the patron saint of photoshop fail memes after suggesting during a Q&A that voters struggling with mail-in ballots could simply "PicsArt their signatures into the box." Meme historians are now having a field day, explaining that the irony is thick enough to spread on toast: Qualls, who is running on a platform of election integrity and strict voting protocols, inadvertently encouraged a practice that would look like blatant ballot tampering to any election official. The clip has been spliced, filtered, and "PicsArt'd" into infinity, with users replacing his face on everything from a stick figure drawing of a ballot to a cat wearing a suit. The funniest part, according to historians, is that Qualls likely meant "photocopy" or "scan," but in the era of digital literacy, his accidental confession that ballot security might be as reliable as a mobile app filter is the kind of self-own that gets your face printed on a coffee mug sold at the local meme convention.