Thanks for posting the link to that NYT article. The Washington Post mentioned it today, and I read the whole thing. It’s great reporting, and the graphics are impressively alarming.

I am an old man with a beard.
Now I find it is worse than I feared.
370 candidates,
The NYT relates,
Are of TFG very skeered.

We don’t want them anywhere near the actual vote counting.

Well, for the ignorati who think the 2020 election was stolen, that huge number of vote were flipped after polls closed, that voting machines without the means to connect to the internet somehow “called home” to China and corrupted votes, the losers of the Georgia type who think the QR codes are stealing votes and are illegal any of the current qop politicians who say they would not certify an election if a republican lost — no, we don’t want them counting votes.

Of course, if people meeting those descriptions were ruled out I doubt there would be any trump-humpers left to do counting (you certainly wouldn’t be eligible) : that’s how bad your party is.

They weren’t fraudulently voting since they had been registered by the state to vote, so there was no intent to defraud.

The charges haven’t been pursued all along because they are trumped up, and the fraud being committed is by the state, not by the voters.

The details of who could vote vs not were esoteric and hard to get good information on, so this was a good faith effort to help fix that.

But suddenly the rules changed, and following this standard practice gets you popped.

I guarantee there will be legal recourse, and there will be law suits, and the state of Florida will be paying out restitution to people who’s right to vote was taken away, or who were unlawfully arrested.

Which party is routinely working to close voting access in minority and poor areas of their cities and states? Which party has a good number of candidates for office who still push the “stolen election” bullshit and vow to have “volunteers” monitor voting sites?

I get that you lie to defend your beliefs and the vision you have for the country (rights for women and minorities should be rolled back, etc), but it is really getting old to hear the same completely unsupported by any semblance of fact BS from you.

Two thoughts.

1. Why didn’t their conviction pop up when they registered to vote? They should fix that. People who are not eligible to vote shouldn’t blithely be able to register without cleaning that up first.

2. Why have these charges not being pursued all along? Fraudulent voting should be pursued in all cases.

The cops know it’s phony.

“That’s not an accident,” Rankin said. “That’s a political strategy.”

Public defenders representing Hart and Patterson declined to comment.

Patterson, a registered sex offender, wondered why he was being singled out when officers showed up at his home, the recording shows.

“This happened years ago,” he told officers. “Why now? Why me?”

Even the Tampa police officer driving Patterson to the jail seemed surprised by the charges against him. En route, the officer received a phone call and appeared to briefly discuss Patterson’s case.

“I’ve never seen these charges before in my entire life,” the officer said.

Yes dean. The trump supporting right is so dangerous they should not be allowed to volunteer as election workers. We don’t want them anywhere near the actual vote counting. In fact they shouldn’t be allowed to vote, or even speak. Their dangerous ideas are to dangerous to even hear. Probably to dangerous to own guns also. Yes – I am being sarcastic. You are a fear monger.

As we now know, the trump supporting right is the single most active threat to rights and democracy in existence.