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Trump's new campaign chief is registered to vote at an empty house in apparent violation of election laws, The Guardian reported Friday morning.
Stephen Bannon, the Chief Executive of Trump's presidential election campaign, is allegedly registered to vote in Florida at a home in Miami-Dade County, which is vacant and set to be demolished.
Bannon had rented the house for his ex-wife but he did not live there. She moved out earlier this year.
“I have emptied the property,” Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, told The Guardian. “Nobody lives there … we are going to make a construction there.”
The Trump campaign declined to comment on Bannon's registration.
Under Florida law, voters must be legal residents of the state where they are registered to vote.
Submitting false information on Florida voter registration is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, The Guardian notes.
Bannon is executive chairman of the rightwing website Breitbart News, which has for years aggressively claimed that voter fraud is rife among minorities and in Democratic-leaning areas. The allegation has been repeated forcefully on the campaign trail by Trump, who has predicted the election will be “rigged” and warned supporters that victory could be fraudulently “taken away from us”.
Bannon, Clohesy and Trump’s campaign repeatedly declined to answer detailed questions about Bannon’s voting arrangements. Jason Miller, a Trump campaign spokesman, eventually said in an email: “Mr Bannon moved to another location in Florida.” Miller declined to answer further questions.
originally posted by: Nikola014
Yes, lock him up for moving out of the house.
Bannon, 62, formerly rented the house for use by his ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, but did not live there himself. Clohesy, a Tea Party activist, moved out of the house earlier this year and has her own irregular voting registration arrangement. According to public records, Bannon and Clohesy divorced seven years ago.
Bannon previously rented another house for Clohesy in Miami from 2013 to 2015 and assigned his voter registration to the property during that period. But a source with direct knowledge of the rental agreement for this house said Bannon did not live there either, and that Bannon and Clohesy were not in a relationship.
originally posted by: abe froman
a reply to: Indigo5 Yeah, this guy not changing his address
Submitting false information on Florida voter registration is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, The Guardian notes.
Bannon previously rented another house for Clohesy in Miami from 2013 to 2015 and assigned his voter registration to the property during that period. But a source with direct knowledge of the rental agreement for this house said Bannon did not live there either, and that Bannon and Clohesy were not in a relationship.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
So did the guy vote more than once?
originally posted by: matafuchs
The only thing he could be accused of is not changing his address on his voter ID.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: Bluntone22
So did the guy vote more than once?
To Be Determined...
If he registered at an address he never lived at in FL...it's possible he has also registered where he actually resides.