Meant symbolic or figurative....proverbial was not the right word....
CNN claims DeSantis cheated by arresting people who committed election fraud.
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so you are just throwing up nonsense…typical of a dembot cultist
EvilCat Breath
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Democrats are getting a head start.
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You are incredibly stupid...the media hates Republicans.
ColonelAngus
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Florida has lower crime than many states because DeSantis cheats and arrests CRIMINALS!
That jerk. Its an unlevel playing field. He arrests people who commit crimes. Its so unfair!
That jerk. Its an unlevel playing field. He arrests people who commit crimes. Its so unfair!
He arrested people who DID NOT commit crimes, silly one!
Try researching it....
who?
The ones he put on show, with his press conference.
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Florida man's voter fraud charges dismissed in blow to DeSantis
One of the 20 people as part of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' effort to crack down on voter fraud had his charges dismissed on Friday.
www.reuters.com
Read the whole, very long article here, it is informative and goes in to other details:
Florida voter has election fraud charges touted by DeSantis dismissed
A Florida man had his election fraud charges dismissed on Friday, making him the first of 20 people who Gov. Ron DeSantis announced had been charged, to beat his case.
abcnews.go.com
Republican Florida state legislator Jeff Brandes, who authored Amendment 4, criticized the 20 arrests in a tweet during DeSantis' press conference, urging the state to look at the intent of the voters.
"It was our intent that those ineligible would be granted some grace by the state if they registered without intent to commit voter fraud," he tweeted on Aug. 18.
Intent is core to these cases. A prosecutor must prove that a defendant knowingly and willingly registered to vote or knowingly and willingly voted while ineligible. It is not enough for a conviction to show solely that the voter cast their ballot while ineligible, according to Robert Barrar, a criminal defense attorney representing another defendant charged with election fraud.
In many of these cases, the accused have told officers they believed they were eligible to vote, according to their affidavits of arrest.
Mark Earley, president of Florida's election supervisor association, told ABC News that the local supervisors do not have the resources to check a prospective voter's criminal record. That is the Department of State's obligation, he said.
Election supervisors check the applications and then transmit them to Tallahassee, where Division of Elections' staff can check convictions against voter rolls.
Unless an election supervisor receives a packet from the Department of State which contains information that says a voter is ineligible, the voter is sent a voting card, Earley said.
But due to a backlog, as described by a Divisions of Elections official in a 2020 federal case, Florida was "struggling" to come up with a process to identify ineligible felons, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
It's unclear if the Department of State ever sent those packets to local election officials. But local election officials sent all 20 voter cards to the arrested voters, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The former head of the Office of Election Crimes and Security, Pete Antonacci, sent a letter reviewed by ABC News to local elections supervisors on the day of the governor's announcement, telling them "through no fault of your own" convicted felons voted in their counties.
Neil Volz, the deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, who helped Brandes with Amendment 4, said in a statement that Friday's ruling, "strengthens our resolve to continue to place people over politics."
The ruling in Wood's case is the first disposition of the 18 cases that were announced by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, following the DeSantis announcement.
people are charged when there is proble cause they committed a crime. it’s up to the court systems to determine if their is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
that article doesn’t say he charged people he knew didn’t commit a crimeFlorida man's voter fraud charges dismissed in blow to DeSantis
One of the 20 people as part of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' effort to crack down on voter fraud had his charges dismissed on Friday.
in fact it says only a couple cases were tossed because of technically issues
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And Cares post did not say he did it knowingly.
Yes, the technicality was that the state let him register and sent him his Voter ID.
where is evidence they didn’t commit a crime or that he knew they didn’t?
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So he flexes the power of the Florida government by demonstrating that cheaters will be prosecuted (much like Ken Paxton did), the cheating goes away, and you call it unethical?It was dog and pony show and he hurt people by doing it.
I wouldn't call it cheating though....
Maybe unethical, maybe juvenile, maybe an abuse of power, but not cheating!
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