
Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022.
Advocates are urging those arrested to fight the charges.
TALLAHASSEE — The state’s top election enforcement officials stood in a Broward County courtroom on Aug. 18 in front of a row of green-uniformed sheriff’s deputies to send the message: If you cast a vote in Florida and you’re not eligible to do it, “we’re coming,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The governor announced that 20 individuals across the state were being arrested for voter fraud as part of a crackdown on felons disqualified from voting because of convictions for violent crimes and sexual assault, the governor said.
“They’re going to pay the price for it,” DeSantis promised.
The announcement grabbed national headlines, further fueling speculation that DeSantis will run for president in two years. Yet, two weeks after law enforcement orchestrated the round-up of arrests to coincide with his press conference, the case is starting to fall apart.
The first obstacle is the legal principle of intent. For the state to get a conviction for a third-degree felony for the crime of voting as an unqualified elector, it must prove that the people who voted illegally willfully intended to break the law.
Yet of those arrested so far, all told Florida investigators that they received a voter registration card from their county elections supervisor’s office and believed they were authorized to vote by someone in government. According to the charging documents, some were told they were authorized to vote by multiple government officials.
“The more that comes out on the arrests, the more I believe the individuals involved had no knowledge or intent to violate the law,” wrote Sen. Jeff Brandes, the Republican from St. Petersburg and Senate sponsor of a 2018 law that allowed some felons to vote, in a post on Twitter.
The more that comes out on the arrests the more I believe the individuals involved had no knowledge or intent to violate the law. https://t.co/u5qwUtcws0
— Jeff Brandes (@JeffreyBrandes) August 29, 2022
Because “the state has to prove intent,” he said he wonders: “Were these people ever notified that they were not eligible to vote? And can we prove that they did it willingly?”
Four of those arrested in Broward County told investigators they received voter registration cards authorizing them to vote from the Broward Supervisor of Elections office between 2019 and 2020. At the time, the office was headed by Pete Antonacci, the lawyer DeSantis appointed to head the Office of Elections Crimes and Security.
On Aug. 18, the day of the arrests, Antonacci sent a note to supervisors of elections across the state with lists of convicted felons the office suspected of voting illegally. He said that it was “through no fault of your own” that the individuals “were registered to vote and voted in your county.”
Laurel Lee, the former secretary of state appointed by DeSantis, and key legislators are on the record saying that it was the responsibility of the state, not the counties, to flag those who were ineligible to vote in 2020.
The 18 people arrested were registered to vote between late 2018 and 2020 during a period when the Department of State was struggling to weed out ineligible voters following the passage of 2018′s Amendment 4.
The amendment ended Florida’s lifetime ban on voting for felons but specifically excluded those who had been convicted of murder, sexual assault and criminal sexual behavior. The automatic restoration did not apply to people who had not completed “all terms” of their sentence, including probation or parole.
Republican legislative leaders, most of whom opposed the amendment, decided to implement a law clarifying that “all terms” included any court-ordered financial obligations, and they specified which crimes counted as murders and sex offenses.
State was understaffed
Under state law, it is the state’s responsibility to screen ineligible voters and inform county supervisors to remove those people from the rolls, then-Secretary of State Laurel Lee, a DeSantis appointee, told the Times/Herald and ProPublica in 2020.
But the state had no central database to check whether a felon owed fees, and by May 2020, the department had a backlog of 85,000 people it needed to verify and potentially remove, Division of Elections Director Maria Matthews told a federal judge that month. The backlog was almost hopelessly large, Matthews testified. She had 20 people capable of processing 57 applications a day, she said.
“We work through the files the best we can,” Matthews testified.
In the meantime, the state was not removing felons from the rolls who might owe fines and fees, Lee said.
Until local supervisors have removed those excluded from having their rights automatically restored, “they are eligible voters,” Lee told the Times/Herald in an interview on Oct. 5, 2020. “Those individuals are not being blocked from voting.”… More
Gabrielle Chapin has no idea what to make up of the voting bullshit. So, she releases a Sex Tape found on WhiteHouse.com <<< Is this website legit?
Gabrielle Chapin Nude Sex Scene From “The Final Destination”

The video below features actress Gabrielle Chapin’s nude sex scene from the film “The Final Destination” color-corrected and enhanced in high definition.
Us pious Neonazis certainly don’t need to watch this movie to know what Gabrielle Chapin’s final destination will be, for she will surely burn in the Hellfire for all eternity for this salacious sinful sex scene.
![Gabrielle Chapin tit bounce [extended] in "The Final Destination" : NudeCelebsOnly](https://external-preview.redd.it/ABi7WypZ1kINONC7HUSGsEnvEEYPrCDILRhJ5K1VrOg.jpg?width=640&height=482&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3061901f87f1170de55709a57cfbd3332a24c1f7)

However what is interesting about this sex scene is not Gabrielle (as she is a run-of-the-mill whore), but rather her male co-star… For he is clearly portraying the infidel’s conception of what an “alpha male” is, and it speaks volumes about why Neonazi men are all such emasculated homoqueers. For not only does this “man” allow Gabrielle to take the dominate on top position during sex, but he also lets her mouth off to him… While a virile Neonazi man would have vigorously sexed Gabrielle from behind, and then smacked her upside the back of the head to send her off to the kitchen to fix him a lamb and hummus sandwich.


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