Desantis' felon fraud case disintegrating: Some were told BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS they could vote

[chuluma]

And there's no evidence the rest thought they were ineligible:
Desantis will be embarrassed if these people charged with fraud are acquitted:

Several Floridians facing criminal voter fraud charges, loudly trumpeted by Governor Ron DeSantis last week, believed they were eligible to vote, and in some cases said they were advised by government officials that they could cast ballots.
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In order to get a conviction, prosecutors will have to prove the defendants knew they were ineligible when they registered and voted. They have yet to submit any evidence showing the defendants were explicitly warned their specific felonies barred them from voting.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/florida-voting-fraud-charges-eligibility

[Chainfire]

1. That won't matter to DeSantis. He already got the mileage out of it with his people.

The other issue is that he doesn't give a rat's ass about who he hurts with his silly games.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Sad, but true...nt

[tishaLA]

10. Precisely. And the press won't make a big show of the unraveling

the way they let DeSantis turn the announcement of charges into a circus.

[Botany]

3. I hope those arrested sue the shit out of the Governor and the police who arrested them too.

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They were given a voter I.D. cards either by the state or their county BOEs.

Charlie Crist, the Florida Democratic party, and the ACLU should file suits in support of them.

[The Blue Flower]

4. Crist v deSatan

I think we already know the outcome...

[Botany]

5. Where was DeSantis when all those people in that Florida Senior place were voting twice in 2020 ...

.... in Florida, or voting one time in Florida and one time in the northern state where they had been
living, or voting for a dead spouse?

These optics are bad for Ron.


I want those people to publicly sue DeSantis and the state of FL. I have been doing voting protection for
years and if those 20 people showed up and voted and then if they were shown to be ineligible to vote then
their vote should not have been counted end of story. And if they were listed as eligible voters in the polling
book and they had their I.D. such as their voter I.D. card (given to them by the state in this case) then they
got to vote but to arrest them over 1 3/4 years later is an abuse of power.

[Scalded Nun]

6. How about charging him/them with malicious prosecution, since that is what it is. Fuckers!

[keithbvadu2]

7. He found 20 in the entire state of FL? How many in the Villages?

He found 20 in the entire state of FL?

How many in the Villages?

[Lonestarblue]

8. Oops. There goes his excuse for his private brown shirt separate voter fraud police force.

[Midnight Writer]

9. "Intent" is only a factor for the big players.

[Septua]

11. DeSantis is crazier than Trump...

..which is disturbing when thinking in terms of him possibly being the Republican's 2024 candidate.