Florida Democrats urged voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day, using an official form that had been altered to make it look like they were doing so within the legal deadline, hoping a judge would later allow the votes.
That attempt to add Democratic votes, which critics say is possible election fraud, was reported Thursday morning by Ana Ceballos of the Naples Daily News, who notes the scheme has already been reported to federal prosecutors.
Ceballos reported:
A day after Florida’s election left top state races too close to call, a Democratic party leader directed staffers and volunteers to share altered election forms with voters to fix signature problems on absentee ballots after the state’s deadline.
The altered forms surfaced in Broward, Santa Rosa, Citrus and Okaloosa counties and were reported to federal prosecutors to review for possible election fraud as Florida counties complete a required recount in three top races.
But an email obtained by the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida shows that Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms to fix improper absentee ballots after the Nov. 5 deadline. Democratic party leaders provided staffers with copies of a form, known as a “cure affidavit,” that had been modified to include an inaccurate Nov. 8 deadline.
One Palm Beach Democrat said in an interview the idea was to have voters fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.
Election Day was November 6.
A decision Thursday by federal judge Mark Walker, a Barack Obama appointee, will allow voters to correct mismatched signatures on mailed-in and provisional ballots until Saturday. Republicans have appealed.
Republicans are already crying foul over Democrats’ efforts to overturn GOP victories in the races for governor and U.S. Senate by suing local election authorities to include votes that were improperly cast (or not cast).
Since we began having elections in the United States, they have followed the same rules (often violated, but the rules remained the same). There is an election day. Everyone who votes votes on or before that date. Period.
When there have been violations, Democrats have been doing the violating. Whenever there is a questionable count, Democrat votes always increase, never Republican votes. When votes are suspected or expected to contain a majority of support for Republicans, such as the absentee military votes, Democrats make every effort and excuse to disqualify them.
Every one of these fraud episodes (and there are many this year) should be investigated, and no doubt and investigation by a NON-LIBERAL DOJ would reveal different results from previous investigations.
Count every legitimate vote, but only count them once.
Throw that Florida Jackass to the Gators give them a taste of Treason and dirty work
@Spurwing Plover: Gators are not bottom feeders.