Ron DeSantis Presents: ELECTIONS POLICE

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.wonkette.com/-2657217373


It's been a busy spring for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. So many LGBTQ kids to kick, so little time! And yet he got it all in, managing to ratfuck Black voters, destroying tenure in case those pesky college professors want to exercise their First Amendment right to testify against his administration, censoring math textbooks for mentioning Maya Angelou, and saddling taxpayers with a billion dollars in bond debt and an annual $163 million hole in their budget — a small price to pay to stick it to "woke Disney."

But the indefatigable DeSantis wasn't done! Yesterday he signed a bill to ratfuck elections even more. Because it was just too easy for Floridians to vote before, so the state needed to make it harder to cast a ballot and also staff up a special police force of election security storm troopers to catch all the non-existent vote fraudsters.

As CNN points out, the Florida Department of State received just 262 fraud complaints in 2020, and of those only 75 were referred to law enforcement for further investigation. With almost 11 million ballots cast, that means a whopping 0.0000068 percent of votes were potentially hinky. So naturally Ol' Ron is standing up an Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State with 25 staffers to deal with this non-emergency, at a cost of $3.7 million.

Implying without evidence that local authorities might lack the experience to prosecute fraud, Desantis inked the bill into law yesterday.

"We just want to make sure whatever laws are on the books that those laws are enforced," DeSantis said at the signing event at Rookies Sports Bar & Grill (obviously).

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[sboatcar]

1. I'm surprised he didn't contract it out

How is this going to pad his buddy's wallets?

[BlackSkimmer]

2. Yay Twitter!

Still alive and well on DU!

[Nevilledog]

4. What is your problem with this post?

I include the tweet because some people actually use Twitter and often like to see replies to said tweet.

There is a link directly to the non-Twitter based article, with excerpt. Explain to me how this presents difficulty for you personally.

[spanone]

3. ...K&R...

[Walleye]

5. Wouldn't it be great if after all this he lost his election anyway?

[allegorical oracle]

6. Wonder why he didn't just cut to the chase and get the butt-kissin' Repug legislature to pass a bill

making it illegal for Dems to vote at all.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. Barney Fife

That's who I think of with the Election Police. What happens when the repugs lose the next election? Voter fraud again?

[Towlie]

8. 75 divided by 11 million is 0.00068%, not 0.0000068%. Wonkette is off by a factor of 100.

 
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