Here's what actual election fraud looks like

[Oldem]

And this time the repug SOB is facing felony charges.

Miami police arrested former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles on Thursday and charged him with orchestrating a plot to siphon votes from a sitting Democratic state senator by paying a man with a similar last name to run a fake campaign. The scheme seems to have worked: In November, the incumbent, José Javier Rodríguez, lost his seat by the incredibly thin margin of around 30 votes to his Republican challenger, Ileana Garcia. The man Artiles recruited to run as an independent—an auto parts dealer named Alex Rodriguez, who didn’t live in the district—picked up more than 6,000 votes. (In his concession speech, José Javier Rodríguez called for a full investigation into the race.)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/the-arrest-of-an-ex-florida-state-senator-hints-at-a-broader-dark-money-scheme/

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[BobTheSubgenius]

2. There ought to be a runoff.

That is absolute banana republic bullshit.

[Escurumbele]

3. Lots of bananas in Florida...

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. Which is a very handy double entendre when talking about Florida, too!

[SheltieLover]

4. Absofuckingloutely!

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. Hey. I love Shelties, too.

Thought it was high time I mentioned it. We don't have one - we have a Cairn - but a Sheltie would be on the very short list. were we ever to get another dog. Unlikely at the age I will be at when Ozzie, Cairn of Steel passes on, though.

[SheltieLover]

13. Awwwww

I don't currently have a Sheltie either.

It would be cruel to have one here in Memphis region. Way too hot, humid, & loaded with parasites, microscopic & human. 🤮

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. Bummer. It'll be sad days around here without Ozzie. *

Good BBQ, though?

(I usually try to find something positive.)

* BTW. In case you didn't know, Toto from the Wizard of Oz was a Cairn. Hence, Ozzie. Ozzie is blond, though.

[FakeNoose]

5. They arrested Frank Artiles, so what happens next?

I hope the police have proof, and I'm sure they do or they wouldn't have arrested him. The district election needs to be struck down immediately. Whether Artiles is convicted or not, the election result is in question due to his actions.

This local district needs to have a runoff between the Democratic and Repuke candidates, leaving the independent candidate out of it.

[rickyhall]

6. Florida even looks like a banana, paint it yellow

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Worth reading the whole thing - there's more than just Alex Rodriguez

But someone did campaign for Rodriguez. On October 2, a Florida political committee, Our Florida PC PAC, was created. The following day, someone donated $370,000 to the PAC. It’s still unclear who made the contribution—initially, Our Florida listed an Atlanta-based LLC with no contact information as the donor, but in December, the PAC revised its paperwork to identify a different entity as the source of the money: Colorado-based Grow United, Inc. Days after the contribution was deposited, it was used to pay for mailers supporting Alex Rodriguez’s candidacy.

Investigators still don’t know who is behind Grow United—its listed address is a UPS store—but Alex Rodriguez was not the only mysterious candidate supported by the company. Grow United poured $180,000 into a different newly formed PAC called The Truth, which backed a woman named Jestine Iannotti in her state Senate campaign against another sitting Democrat. Like Alex Rodriguez, Iannotti ran as an independent. She also had no prior political experience and took no steps to campaign, other than filing the paperwork to run. She won 2 percent of the vote in November; the Republican challenger prevailed in the race by a 3 percent margin. Though Iannotti is white, mailers sent by the PAC—and paid for with Grow United’s donation—used a stock image of a Black woman. Among other anodyne statements, the mailers said Iannotti would help get “special interest money out of politics.”

This, though, is just comedy gold, about Artiles: "He later resigned his Senate seat after it was revealed that his campaign committee had hired a Hooters calendar girl and a Playboy model to work as consultants."

[Oldem]

10. These guys think they can get away with anything, because often

they can. They're part crook and part clown.

[uponit7771]

8. "The scheme seems to have worked:" So the election is a redo? O wait, no it isn't and the reason why

... the courts and the constitution don't have a remedy for people like the kGQP right now.

People like this wont give up power through brute force voting, they're doing everything they can to stop it.

We need HR1 to pass, its good that its popular right now

[DFW]

9. "It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting."

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
--attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.