State investigators never interviewed tipster in GOP voter fraud case

[teach1st]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

TALLAHASSEE — Criminal investigators couldn't find a better witness than Jeff Jewett.

Last year, he was the field coordinator for a private vendor used by the Republican Party of Florida in Jacksonville, overseeing a staff of 32 people registering voters. He discovered that one of his employees turned in seven bogus forms: fake addresses, non-working phone numbers, multiple signatures made in the same handwriting. He fired the employee, contacted elections officials and turned in the counterfeit forms.

Jewett's tip launched voter registration fraud case JA-32-0001 that would take Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents three months to close. The employee, a University of North Florida college student, admitted to investigators that he forged the forms. Because he had no criminal history, he got probation and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.

Case closed, right?

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/state-investigators-never-interviewed-tipster-in-gop-voter-fraud-case/2127739

[Thinkingabout]

1. No way, do you think it would be possibe to have voter fraud run by GOP's?

Must be political on some body's part, probably ACORN members posing as GOP's. Ha

[malokvale77]

2. Having read the article...

all I can say is, they don't want to catch the "big fish".

[azurnoir]

3. well color me shocked and surprised - not

someone got probation for this case closed, ya all don't need to know no more than that

[Rebellious Republican]

4. Its a witch hunt I tell ya, the Florida GOP would never lie cheat or steal......

More than three decades apart, two political riots influenced the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. In 1968, protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago hurt Democrat Hubert Humphrey and helped Republican Richard Nixon eke out a victory. On Nov. 22, 2000, the so-called “Brooks Brothers Riot” of Republican activists helped stop a vote recount in Miami -- and showed how far George W. Bush’s supporters were ready to go to put their man in the White House.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html

Jim Greer changes his plea to guilty of grand theft and money laundering in a deal to throw out his fraud charge.
http://baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/features/jim-greer-trial/timeline.html

Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/former-leader-of-state-republican-party-faces-sentencing/2111474

When all was said and done Former GOP chair Jim Greer received a very light sentence. I guess to many GOPers here in Florida did not want many things to see the sunshine. They made sure his case did not go to trial, but of course he got a very sweet deal because he was being unfairly targeted. Yeah right!

[madrchsod]

5. people say chicago is corrupt......

i guess if you can not win on merit just cheat

[Rebellious Republican]

7. Chicago has nothing on Florida, this whole fucking STATE is corrupt!

NORC reported "exceptional" circumstances in three counties. In Volusia county, the ballots presented as overvotes and undervotes "bore no relation" to the number reported in the machine count. In Orange County, county officials recounted all ballots separate from the NORC process. In Broward County, officials did not attempt to produce the ballots reported as undervotes or overvotes by the machine count; instead, they presented the ballots that remained as undervotes or overvotes after the official county recount, [5] which had given Gore a net 567 additional votes, and which had been conducted under loose standards, including counting as legal votes ballots with "dimpled" chad.[6] The Broward and Volusia recount results (567 and 98 net Gore votes respectively) were thus locked in under all NORC scenarios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount

"i guess if you can not win on merit just cheat" That could be easily shortened here in Florida to "Just Cheat".

[Scuba]

6. Bet if it'd been the Dems, the FDLE would have pulled out all the stops ...

Investigators have yet to close at least four separate investigations involving Strategic Allied Consulting, a vendor hired by the Republican Party of Florida. The one case involving the vendor that was closed was based partly on Jewett's tip. According to FDLE records provided to the Times/Herald, investigators interviewed the UNF student and another low-level staffer in a second Jacksonville office who admitted to forging applications. But they didn't follow up by interviewing the two staffers' supervisors, including Jewett.

"They never talked to the whistle blower?" said Daniel Smith, a University of Florida political scientist who analyzes state election laws, when told about Jewett. "That's unbelievable. You just wonder if the FDLE is sitting on this and hoping it withers away."

It's unclear how the other investigations are playing out across the state, because FDLE won't say. Things began to unravel for Strategic Allied on Sept. 18, 2012, when Palm Beach County elections officials discovered fraudulent forms filed by the GOP vendor. The vendor announced it fired two employees responsible in Palm Beach and Lee counties, but a dozen other counties reported hundreds of similarly suspicious forms. The state Republican Party fired Strategic Allied Consulting.

FDLE announced in October that it was investigating. From then on, news of the cases stopped.

[silvershadow]

8. In other news, water is wet. nt