Quick Glance: 'Makes Me Physically Ill': Election Police Force of DeSantis in Action
- Police detained 19 persons in the Tampa region, including 13 Black residents and 12 registered Democrats.
- The vote resulted in the restoration of voting rights to 1.4 million persons with prior criminal convictions, however the statute excluded people convicted of sex offenses or murder.
- "Y'all said anybody with a felony could vote, man."
- According to Mark Rankin, an attorney for Oliver, DeSantis' team targeted persons with prior offenses so the governor could announce the arrests at a later news conference and say his administration was clamping down on convicted felons.
Quick Glance: DeSantis' election police unit announces cases of voter fraud
- Ron DeSantis announced criminal charges against 20 people on Thursday for voting illegally in 2020, the first big public step by the Republican's controversial new election enforcement team.
- DeSantis has already lauded Florida for conducting a smooth 2020 election.
- More voting fraud charges, according to Peter Antonacci, a former Broward County Supervisor of Elections appointed by DeSantis to run the election police squad.
- "Everyone wants elections to be secure, but Ron DeSantis, who has never refuted Donald Trump's Big Lie," she continued, "is the last person we can trust with 'election police.'"
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