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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft decertified a ballot item Monday that would reverse the state’s ban on abortion.
State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November, and a state health care agency has launched a website targeting the ballot initiative with politically charged language.
A deadline in state law to challenge the validity of the signatures has long passed, but county-level election administrators across Florida say they have been receiving requests from state officials to turn over verified petition signatures as part of a state probe.
Arrington said she didn’t know what to make of the state’s request to review signatures her office had already verified.
“These are ones that we deemed the petition valid, both in completeness and in their signature matching what we had on file for the voter,” Arrington said. “They said they were investigating … signature petition fraud.”
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: Vermilion
Sure, but oddly enough the signatures had already been verified and there is no mention of fraud being found.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: xuenchen
By the Supervisor of Elections in Osceola County in central Florida for 16 years
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
Yes for sure.
He said elections police are going to the homes of people who signed the petitions that got Amendment 4 on the ballot not to intimidate them, but because questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the signatures. He said the police have found evidence that some of the supposed signatures were from dead people. “Anyone who submitted a petition that is a valid voter, that is totally within their rights to do it,” DeSantis said. “We are not investigating that. What they are investigating is fraudulent petitions. We know that this group did submit on behalf of dead people.”
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
Lol. I have no problem doing so if warranted. How long is the time frame? 6 months? A year? 4 years? Or eternity of "there was fraud" just never any proof but for sure a continuous assertion?