Plus, people have been making silly protest comments on their ballots since forever.
I did myself in the recent Northern elections here in protest of only two Assembly candidates bothering to declare.
Now while the comments I wrote might not be interpreted as an attack or an embrace of a certain poster, it was nonetheless me expressing dissatisfaction with the choices (or lack of choices) we had.
People frequently vote this way when somebody they dislike is on the ballot, too. I could have written "an actual pile of dog feces" over the candidates for Senate. Would that really be considered any less offensive or demeaning than what BRTD wrote?