But if he owns it all, doesn't the authorisation automatically happen the moment he does something since he's the only authority?

Update: I ended up doing the procedure myself with the assistance of a friend. Three years later, the tag works fine and I've had no issues!

@JannPoppinga "Not a problem" as in "not a problem for the officer", it's clearly a problem for society, but that's another subject entirely.

@gerrit From the article, the poll worker was given a handout during training that specified that BLM shirts are acceptable. Not sure it can really be considered an honest mistake if the person doesn't read their training material.

I'll wait to accept the answer, but yeah... This is pretty much what I expected.