Florida man who tried to get ballot for dead wife charged

[progree]

10. Hmm. So that's why he's being prosecuted. And Black too

and unfortunately, more evidence of intent --

Staffers determined that Wiggins forged his late wife's name on the ballot request.
More: https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-man-who-tried-to-get-ballot-for-dead-wife-arrested

Bennett said his staff discovered the fraud during a routine check of the voter roll that is done whenever someone requests a mail ballot. The voter database is constantly being updated, including with information from the state Department of Health on voters who die, Bennett said.

“As soon as they pulled up the file it showed that she is dead,” Bennett said.

The supervisor’s office then compared the handwriting on the absentee ballot request for Wiggins’s wife with her signature on file and discovered that they did not match.

More: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/crime/2020/10/02/manatee-county-man-requests-mail-ballot-dead-wife-sheriff-says/5893307002/