DeSantis wants election crimes to be prosecuted
“We are excited to say that next legislative session we are proposing another package of election integrity reforms that will make Florida the number one state for elections,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “I am excited that with this legislation, our state will be able to enforce election violations, combat voter fraud and make sure violators are held accountable. If potential violators know they will be held accountable, they will be much less likely to engage in improper conduct in the first place.”
At the event, Governor DeSantis called on the Legislature to take four additional steps to safeguard our elections:
Establish an Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State to investigate election crimes and fraud;
Elevate the crime of ballot harvesting to a third-degree felony, recognizing that this offense is a serious attack on democracy;
Require timelines for supervisors of elections to clean the voter rolls of ineligible voters; and
Prohibit unsecure, haphazard drop box locations in Florida.
And J. Christian Adams writes at PJ:
We now have hard data from Florida that shows serious potential election crimes have been ignored by both county and federal prosecutors in the Sunshine State.
This matters because vote fraud deniers will crow about how rare voter fraud is. If there are few convictions, they will say, then there must not be much fraud.
Whether or not prosecutors are pursuing possible election crimes they know about, however, is the weak link in that logical chain…
For years, the FBI and U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida (Miami) were provided with rock-solid information about people voting in Florida and in other states for the same federal election. Snowbird double voters, you might call them.
Instead of doing anything, federal employees with a duty to enforce the law made excuses for the potential criminals. “It might not be the same person.” Or, “how do we know they voted for the same federal office?” Or better yet, “What if someone was just impersonating them?”
Indeed, because impersonation would be a federal crime also. One way to answer the FBI’s questions is for the FBI to ask them in the field. It doesn’t look like that happened.
When you don’t prosecute election crimes, you get more election crimes.
If HR1 had been passed, the Democrats might have succeeded in stopping efforts like those of DeSantis.
A failure to prosecute, when an investigation has revealed sufficient evidence exists is prima facie evidence of obstruction of justice.
Which also applies to Soros A.G.s and D.A.s.
Fairly recently, a ballot harvesting scheme with absentee ballots was prosecuted in eastern NC. This was a Republican scheme, which is why it probably ended up being prosecuted, whereas phony same-day early voting schemes where a dozen or two people register and vote from the same vacant lot skate. If election law violations were consistently investigated and prosecuted, some of this stuff would stop.
Also very good is the requirement for regular cleaning of voter rolls.
Election crimes are a start. I’d like to see lying in an affidavit used to obtain a criminal warrant be prosecuted with sentences as least as long as those falsely held by the warrant.
DeSantis is doing a good job of getting re-elected.
Also very good is the requirement for regular cleaning of voter rolls.
One might imagine the state government setting up a set of databases accessible to board of elections staff. One would be maintained by the state department of corrections and have the census of people in prison, on probation, on parole, or housed in local jails. One would be maintained by the state revenue collectors and have the names and addresses of each person who has filed a state income tax return in the last year. Two others would be maintained by the Secretary of State – one of all the death certificates filed in the state and one of civil commitments and guardianships entered. The state agencies involved would have their own purposes in maintaining them. You have clerks working in pairs (one Democrat, one Republican) checking each entry in the county voter roll against these databases and identifying anomalies. In an ordinary size county (e.g. Montgomery County, Ohio), you have a stock of 200,000 entries on the county voter roll, so to get through them in a year, you have to check 100 entries per hour. You’d have a set of clerks in the office who would rotate to the stock check desk for half day periods. Four clerks at a time might do. Each day, you have another pair of clerks running a flow check of all the incoming registration applications (you might expect a mean of 50 per day) and running follow up on anomalous entries. The equivalent of six clerks might suffice to keep the database scrubbed. I think a typical county government in a county with that population might have around 5,000 employees depending on the division of labor between county and municipal government in a given area, so it’s a small commitment of man-hours in context.
As a courtesy, you send a post card to the address of each person removed from the roll. You publish the roll twice a year – once the last Friday in March and once the first Friday in September. The former is the list of people licensed to sign petitions due for filing (say) in mid-July, enfranchised to vote in primary elections due in late August, and enfranchised to vote in any general elections due to be held between the end of March and the beginning of September. The latter is a list of who is eligible to vote in November and to sign any petitions due to be filed (say) in late January.
You get what you reward, and the Left rewards voter fraud.
Related to rampant election fraud:
The labyrinthine Russiagate conspiracy represents the same efforts by the same perps to make a mockery of the law and stymie justice in a relentless and desperate effort to destroy one’s political opponents.
An in-depth article by Margot Cleveland on Carter Page’s attempts to obtain justice and the hydra-like government obstacles that are being used to prevent him from doing so:
“5 Takeaways From The Latest Filings In The Carter Page Spygate Lawsuit”—
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/26/5-takeaways-from-the-latest-filings-in-the-carter-page-spygate-lawsuit/
Upping the prosecution of voting crimes also serves as taking an offensive, rather than purely defensive approach in the information war on voter fraud.
I have long been of the opinion that knowingly committing voter fraud should be an executable offense. Too many soldiers have died protecting this Republic and rights such as voting for it to be thrown away by scumbags.
50 states, 50 governors and ONE stand out. Truly sad, right Sununu?
Took TX almost a year to discover that they could build the wall themselves. It was recently reported (rare word, that) that all of the material for a wall was just being allowed to deteriorate to the point of having to be scrapped, I think it was in AZ. Cough up some labor and you got yourself a wall…
@ Barry – I’ll see your Page story by Margot and raise you one of her other great posts.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/26/6-new-revelations-from-the-john-durham-spygate-probe/
Maybe coming this week we’ll have 7 more Democrats resigning, 8 Feds indicted for something (and that would only be a start), 9 rules and/or laws invalidated by SCOTUS —
Thanks much.
Lots going on (not just with this case).
Lots that’s very confusing….
Failure to prosecution of vote fraud from 2020 is why we will get it again.
Not only will we get it again: if the Democrats get their way, election fraud will be enshrined into law, i.e., made absolutely legal—“de jure”, not just “de facto”….
Which raises the question: if fraud is legalized, is it still fraud?
Intelligent leadership in action.
I’m a skeptic on this one (and most other things as well).
Not because this kind of thing doesn’t happen; if there’s a way to cheat, then somebody somewhere will be cheating.
Not because cheating shouldn’t be policed; it definitely should.
But because at least some of the people with the power to police the system are part of the system they’re policing.
Here’s another crime that DeSantis might want to prosecute:
Florida hospitals that allow Covid patients to die—killing Covid patients?—by strictly following Federal diktats on treating—that is, NOT TREATING—Covid—
“Woman Sneaks Ivermectin Into Hospital, Saves Husband’s Life”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/01/26/woman-sneaks-ivermectin-into-hospital-saves-husbands-life-n1552952
Key grafs:
‘…Florida hospitals, like the Mayo Clinic, have a COVID protocol for their patients…and ivermectin isn’t part of it. [Dr.] Balbona is a big believer in ivermectin. He alleges he has saved “dozens and dozens” of people…using the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) recommendations, with a few modifications based on each patient. The FLCCC treatment calls for, in part, ivermectin.
‘But hospitals receive federal money for treating COVID patients IF they use treatments outlined in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Ivermectin isn’t a part of that treatment….
‘…Balbona told the woman he could care for her [“very ill”] husband once she got him out of the hospital. He wrote her prescriptions for the meds she would need. She filled them out, snuck them into the hospital, and gave them to her husband. That was on Friday. By Tuesday he was well enough to be discharged from the hospital….”‘
And then recovered (or, if one prefers, was saved). In spite of the best efforts of the FDA, CDC and NIH.
And Fauci.
So how many have died needlessly?
If HR1 had been passed, the Democrats might have succeeded in stopping efforts like those of DeSantis.
Don’t put it past the Democrats to try every parliamentary trick in the book to keep trying to pass this bill. It’s the one thing they can do to make sure Dems win. It’s more important to them than anything else.
The GOP should have been passing laws in the states the day after Trump was elected. It was obvious that the Dems were going to supercharge their cheating and covid, of course, gave them great cover.
But is anything being done now? I was keenly interested in WI, PA, GA, NV, MI and some other swing states.
Cornhead:
To do so, a state pretty much has to have a Republican legislature and governor. How many swing states have that?
Georgia passed election laws (now hotly contested by the Democrats) last year. In Wisconsin the GOP-led legislature passed new laws that the Democratic governor vetoed. In Michigan, basically the same thing happened: a GOP-run legislature passed a law which Governor Whitmer vetoed. Now the Michigan GOP is trying to circumvent the veto with some sort of special petition process, but I don’t think that’s been resolved yet. In Pennsylvania it’s similar: GOP legislature passes law that Democratic governor then vetoes. But in PA it’s also a future issue that will affect the 2022 governor’s race. In Nevada, there’s a Democratic legislature and governor, so I’m not sure what you’d expect the GOP to do, but there was a new voting bill sponsored by Democrats that the GOP opposed, and it was passed along party lines.
So the GOP has been quite busy, but it’s only when there’s a GOP-controlled legislature and governor that the GOP gets anywhere, and even in Georgia the new laws are being fought in the courts by Democrats.
I pray his case succeeds, but I fear it will be dismissed on technicalities.
Both parties seemed to have turned a blind eye to voter fraud. Especially if it hurt Trump. I’m still shocked at Bill Barr comment on voter fraud, and how the courts dodged the election fraud issue in technicalities.
The fbi / doj and other law enforcement ignoring it, I’m not surprised. Probably afraid of being labeled racist, politicized, etc. Safer for their career to turn a blind eye.
The grassroots gop are livid over voter fraud, yet the establishment gop seems to be doing the minimum. DeSantis is an exception.
The Gop for 35 years had a settlement/ ruling preventing them from doing much voter fraud.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/end-of-1982-consent-decree-gop-finally-can-contest-vote-fraud-after-36-years/
Great article that is disturbing, but I’m glad the corruption is being exposed.
When a State’s Secretary of State is in on Voter Fraud
By Jay Valentine
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/when_a_states_secretary_of_state_is_in_on_voter_fraud.html