DeSantis Voter Fraud Arrests Are Already Falling Apart

[applegrove]

DeSantis Voter Fraud Arrests Are Already Falling Apart

September 1, 2022 at 11:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/01/desantis-voter-fraud-arrests-are-already-falling-apart/

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Just two weeks ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recently launched Office of Elections Crimes and Security arrested 20 people for voter fraud — but it’s already “starting to fall apart,” according to the Miami Herald.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Who is surprised by this?

Link to tweet

[crickets]

2. Good. What a jackass move on his part. nt

[Geechie]

3. I hope all 20 file a class action for false arrest

harrassment
racial hate crime
anything and everything - something has to stick

[Frances]

4. Why weren't the people who voted twice in The Villages arrested?

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[nakocal]

5. Arrests had NOTHING to do about the law

They were strictly to intimidate people into not voting.

[ZonkerHarris]

6. Fun fact: you can give us up to 4 paragrapghs of the story you think is so important you chose

to share it with us
maybe more than two lines?

The Miami herald is a lousy webtracking website
very frustrating
help your fellow DUers out

[applegrove]

7. I copy and link from the Political Wire amalgamation site. If you want to

read more go to the link embeded in the lines. I don't want to edit the work political wire does. They are a great asset. Very salient. And yes i get bloked out of the links too.

[dchill]

8. So now what will he do? Have them shot?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. From a Republican who made the felon law - they had no intent to break the law

Link to tweet

“The more that comes out on the arrests, the more I believe the individuals involved had no knowledge or intent to violate the law,’’ wrote Sen. Jeff Brandes, the Republican from St. Petersburg and Senate sponsor of the law that implemented the felons voting law, in a post on Twitter.

Because “the state has to prove intent,’’ he said he wonders: “Were these people ever notified that they were not eligible to vote? And can we prove that they did it willingly?

“The question comes down to: Where did this process break down to where voters got an actual voter registration card? In my opinion, it broke down in the Secretary of State’s office.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article265138721.html#storylink=cpy

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Hoping the voters of Florida wake up and reject this clown's shitshow.

[quaker bill]

11. This is normal Florida Government

make a law that creates a "program", in this case to verify voting eligibility, then not staff or fund it. They had 20 people in a office trying to review 87,000 applications... This is completely normal in FL government, we have tons of 'programs' with not even close to the necessary funding or staff in pretty much everything, everywhere.

These people got valid voter registration cards and were not removed from the rolls because of the backlog. They had every indication that they were legally registered to vote from the government on the day they voted. the DeSantis crew then comes back two years later to arrest them. There is obviously no intent to defraud here.

[Martin68]

12. Some details from the article:

...in the face of a stream of conflicting messages coming from the governor and state elections officials and the prospect of no immediate fix to the state’s confusing system for felons to regain their voting rights, advocates are urging those arrested to fight the charges. The Senate sponsor of the legislation that implemented the felons voting law has concluded “now a million dollar operation” of the Office of Elections Crimes and Security may ultimately produce no convictions.

“The more that comes out on the arrests, the more I believe the individuals involved had no knowledge or intent to violate the law,’’ wrote Sen. Jeff Brandes, the Republican from St. Petersburg and Senate sponsor of the law that implemented the felons voting law, in a post on Twitter. Because “the state has to prove intent,’’ he said he wonders: “Were these people ever notified that they were not eligible to vote? And can we prove that they did it willingly?

▪ For the state to get a conviction for a third-degree felony for the crime of voting as an unqualified elector, it must prove that the people who voted illegally willfully intended to break the law.
▪ Of the 18 arrested so far, all told state investigators that they received a voter registration card from their county election supervisor’s office and believed they were authorized to vote by someone in government. According to the charging documents, some were told they were authorized to vote by multiple government officials.

[Towlie]

13. It's been said that DeSantis is like Trump with a brain, but maybe he's merely like Trump.

 
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