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More Florida Trump Supporters Arrested for Voter Fraud
Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show. Jay Ketcik, Joan Halstead, and John Rider are each charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Ketcik, 63, is accused of voting by mail in Florida in October 2020 while also casting an absentee ballot in his original home state of Michigan, court records show. Halstead, 71, voted in-person in Florida, but also cast an absentee ballot in New York, prosecutors say.
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Texas AG Spent $2.2M on Voter Fraud, Only Closed 3 Cases
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of Donald Trump's most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud, particularly in the 2020 election, and frequently boasts that few states are as vigilant.
His office's election integrity unit added two lawyers to the team in the last year, bringing it up to six staffers total, and worked more than 20,000 hours between October 2020 and September 2021. Its budget, meanwhile, ratcheted up from $1.9 million to $2.2 million during that time.
The problem? In that time, his unit only closed three cases, and all were illegal votes for Trump.
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GA Officials Find Trump Ballot Cast by Dead Voter
False claims that there were thousands of ballots cast in the names of dead Georgia voters can now rest in peace. Election investigators found just four absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election from voters who had died, all of them turned in by relatives.
One of those relatives is Sharon Nelson, a 74-year-old widow who submitted an absentee ballot on behalf of her husband who died in September 2020. Her lawyer conceded that she carried out her late husband's wishes, though Nelson "now realizes that was not the thing to do."
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Fourth The Villages Resident Charged with Voter Fraud
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Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show. Jay Ketcik, Joan Halstead, and John Rider are each charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.Ketcik, 63, is accused of voting by mail in Florida in October 2020 while also casting an absentee ballot in his original home state of Michigan, court records show. Halstead, 71, voted in-person in Florida, but also cast an absentee ballot in New York, prosecutors say.
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A fourth resident of The Villages has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud. Charles Franklin Barnes, 64, was booked into the Sumter County jail Tuesday night on a charge of casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Three other residents of The Villages have also been arrested recently for casting ballots in both Florida and their original home states. Anonymous emails sent to Florida's Secretary of State in May by someone using the pseudonym "Totes Legit Votes" prompted the voter fraud investigation, court records obtained show.
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FL Utility Facing Audit in "Ghost Candidate" Scandal
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
In August, Republican state senator Frank Artiles was arrested in a Republican "ghost candidate" scheme, designed to siphon votes from Democratic candidates.Yesterday, it was reported that top executives at utility giant Florida Power & Light worked closely with the political consultants who orchestrated the scheme.
The records show that the consultants who controlled Grow United Inc., the dark-money nonprofit at the center of the "ghost candidate" scandal, billed FP&L for more than $3-million days before they began moving money through the entity.
The records also show FP&L has donated more than $10-million in recent years to other dark-money nonprofits controlled by some of the same consultants—and FP&L CEO and President Eric Silagy has personally coordinated with those consultants on campaign contributions made through their nonprofits.
Get ready to join Artiles in jail Silagy.
Lawmakers in Orlando and Jacksonville are seeking an audit of Florida Power & Light, following reports revealing ties between the utility giant and the operatives who orchestrated the "ghost candidate" scandal in last year's state Senate elections.
Records showed the consultants who controlled Grow United Inc., the dark-money nonprofit at the center of the controversy, billed FP&L more than $3 million days before they began moving money through the entity.
The documents also showed that FP&L donated more than $10 million in recent years to other entities controlled by those consultants, who were also coordinating on campaign contributions and strategy with top executives at the utility, including CEO and President Eric Silagy.