We’ll here we ARE….
Why NOT go back to these days when white people stood at the election place door to intimidate people of color from voting….
The Florida Governor I’m sure would pick the cops and they’d be his ‘Election Day Muscle’, trying to supersede local elections officials….
This crazy shit gets worst by the day…..
The proposed Office of Election Crimes and Security would be part of the Department of State, which answers to the governor. DeSantis is asking the GOP-controlled legislature to allocate nearly $6 million to hire 52 people to “investigate, detect, apprehend, and arrest anyone for an alleged violation” of election laws. They would be stationed at unspecified “field offices throughout the state” and act on tips from “government officials or any other person.”
DeSantis highlighted his plan as legislators opened their annual 60-day session last week…
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Voting rights experts say that no state has such an agency, one dedicated to patrolling elections and empowered to arrest suspected violators. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced the formation of a “2021 Texas Election Integrity Unit” in October, but that office is more limited in scope, has fewer than 10 employees and isn’t under the governor’s authority.
“There’s a reason that there’s no office of this size with this kind of unlimited investigative authority in any other state in the country, and it’s because election crimes and voter fraud are just not a problem of that magnitude,” said Jonathan Diaz, a voting rights lawyer at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center. “My number one concern is that this is going to be used as a tool to harass or intimidate civic-engagement organizations and voters.”….
Also in Florida the Republican who lost a special Congressional election by 60 points a week ago is refusing to concede.
Is DeSantis gonna set up a moat around the state ?
How about a wall around Trump’ space, eh?
Wasn’t Cyber Ninjas a Florida company? Maybe the Ninjas will find out that the ballots were fraudulently sent from some place in Milwaukee, Philly or Atlanta?
DeSantis is worse than Trump.
Among the only areas where I ever agreed with Trump, and the first one in a long time too, was when he came out swinging in favor of vaccination and accused DS of talking out of both sides of his mouth on whether or not he got vaccinated.
THAT IS causing Trump some ‘second looks’ from some of the MAGA types
A BAD idea spreads……
Georgia Poised to Create Election Police Force
“Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement’s power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged,” Reuters reports.