Gov. DeSantis announces 20 felons charged with voter fraud across Florida

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Tallahassee Democrat

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that 20 individuals across Florida are being charged with voting fraud.

"This is something we take very seriously as a state," DeSantis said in lauding the work of a new election fraud unit that was part of legislation he supported.

DeSantis said most of the voters being charged with fraud are South Florida residents and were in the process of being arrested Thursday. The charges are being lodged n five different judicial districts across the state.

Those targeted are felons convicted of murder or sex offenses who voted in 2020 but were ineligible. Florida passed a constitutional amendment restoring felons voting rights after they served their sentences and paid all fines, fees and restitution.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/08/18/florida-gov-ron-desantis-announces-voter-fraud-charges/7833897001/

[Lovie777]

1. Feels like he's running out of time ......

with his bullshit.

[Solomon]

2. What a fucking asshole! Excuse my french!

[jimfields33]

3. A murderer thought they could vote? Dear God!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. They can if they've done their time and paid fines, fees, and restitution

Probably these are people who misunderstood the rules. 20 out of 10's of 1000's of felons 'getting it wrong' is not surprising.

[Jose Garcia]

19. Murderers and sex offenders are not eligible

[Hugh_Lebowski]

21. I had not read that, thanks for the clarification ...

But the basic argument still stands, very possible 20 out of many thousands ... didn't understand that they weren't given their rights back like other felons. Not that statistically surprising.



Also ... what about manslaughter raps? Murder III, as they call it. No voting rights returned?

How about negligent homicide such as drunk driving accident that killed someone? No voting rights returned?

What about statutory rape of consenting 17 year old by a 21 year old? No voting rights returned?

[bahboo]

4. are they....black.....

[onetexan]

8. Or Democrats

[padah513]

10. He wouldn't have announced it if they weren't

But he wants to create an election police force and those twenty people are his excuse. Millions of people vote in Florida. An election force just to catch twenty people seems like overkill to me.

[Grokenstein]

15. Do they even exist?

Shades of Joe McCarthy's "subversives" list.

“So far as we can tell, for all McCarthy’s bluster, his ‘list(s)’ were mainly numbers either taken from other sources or misremembered or just made up, and yet people believed them, and acted as a result of what he said he had. The times were right, and the Wisconsin senator and others were allowed to go on scapegoating and fear-mongering for several years.”

[NullTuples]

34. Thanks a heap, there goes my evening. That series on documents that changed the world is fascinating

I've heard of most, know a few deeply, but nearly every one of them is a potential rabbit hole of reading to dive down into!

(then again, I read RFC's for fun and saw RFC 791 listed. It's one of the first few I printed out back in the day and soaked up like a sponge, so...)

THANK YOU!

[csziggy]

44. Shades of The Manchurian Candidate!

[Torchlight]

5. It's a deep well, but I wonder how often they can get away with dipping from it

before these wild shark attacks in Iowa concerns of theirs goes the way of the Pet Rock.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Wow. Twenty whole votes will really sway an election ((sarc))

Especially when split across various parties

[Turbineguy]

7. Well, there's another 20 votes trump lost.

[Native]

9. And we always hear Nikki Fried speaking out about this crap, but not Crist

or if he is, the media is ignoring it. For every article about DeathSentence's bullshit, there seems to always be a comment by Fried included in the article, but never one from Crist. You'd think he wasn't even running. I don't know if it's the media or his campaign that's to blame for this.

[hay rick]

32. Crist has been a leader in this fight since before he was governor.

Over 115,000 felons had their rights restored when he was governor. May be some convenient forgetting going on here.

[C Moon]

11. 20? I'll bet there were 20,000 GOP fraudulent votes.

What a joke. 20.

[GreenWave]

24. or 200,000 purged.

[pwb]

12. Sounds like DeSatan wants to fill his jails

with petty crimes. Never mind yourself and all the other rpukes breaking laws left and right eh?

[Lemon Lyman]

13. Wow!

Does this include the residents of The Village who voted twice for trump? I want my elections to be secure damn you!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/13/florida-voter-fraud-2020/

[TheRealNorth]

16. Doubt it

Voting twice IOKIYAR. At most, you will get a small fine or 30 days in jail.

[Traildogbob]

20. My first thought

How many will be old ass trump humping idiots from retirement villages. Did ole Ronnie make a squeak when those retirees got caught voting for trump multiple times? Yea, thought so, crickets.

[Deuxcents]

37. He didn't mention the Villages..just the Democratic county of Broward

As I remember, 4-5 were from the Villages voting twice for the dfg.

[Jose Garcia]

41. Those people have already been arrested

[sinkingfeeling]

17. What a jackass.

[RAB910]

18. Fucking anti-American Nazi

He ignored the republican snowbirds voting twice and instead attack Americans who had a right to vote

[Evolve Dammit]

31. exactly

[icymist]

22. Sounds like DeSatan wants to produce fear in the electorate.

This type of 'tumping his chest', loudly exclaiming that these felons thought they could illeagly vote while using phrases like 'election fraud unit' will make people who are unclear if they can vote, not even try to vote.

[Chainfire]

23. Lets wait and see how many of these folks are convicted.

In the meantime, perhaps we should redo the Florida 2020 election because of twenty accused fraudulent voters.

Most felons can have their voting rights restored here by law, he is trying to scare them into not voting. As is common in other states as well, we send far more black people to prison than whites, so the whole DeSantis deal is racially motivated. And they wonder why they can't get the black vote... It is all Ron DeNazi in action, bringing Fascism to a state near you.

[Novara]

25. What percentage of the total votes is this?

I'm guessing 0.0000000000001.

[LiberalLovinLug]

26. Not to mention that these ex cons actually took the time to vote, did their civic duty

More than almost half of Americans bother to do.

Sounds like if they were responsible enough to take time and effort to vote, they must be rehabilitated to a great degree.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. With all this fraud

maybe Desatanist was never elected and should be recalled.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. A political ploy, fake I bet or trumped-up charges.

[trof]

29. So this is the "wide spread voter fraud" the repugs are always bleating about?

20?
That's it?

[Maggiemayhem]

30. And yet a felon can run for Congress and even the Presidency, but don't dare vote.

[DemocraticPatriot]

33. What about the MAGAts who voted for their dead relatives, Guv. Deathsatan??

Not so much?

[orangecrush]

35. Including himself?

[Hieronymus Phact]

36. Did he include these assholes

4th resident of The Villages arrested for allegedly casting multiple ballots.

[Deuxcents]

38. Yes..I just replied about that..

The governor goes to the most blue county, Broward, but never says a word about the Villages. How much are we taxpayers spending on his election police n lawyers?

[dchill]

39. No. We're talking about DeDantis.

He's NEVER going after Republicans.

[PuppyBismark]

40. 20 out of millions of voters, Give me a break

Obviously he failed 6th grade math. This is so insignificant that it is stupid. Heaven for bid he should do something meaningful for his residents. There is no way this impacted any election in the state of Florida for the past 10 years!!

[Vinca]

42. So I guess he's forgetting the old folks at the Villages who allowed their deceased

spouses to vote in the election. No announcements about that.

[intheflow]

43. 20 people is too few to steal an election.

This is a hollow move by DeathSantis.