Florida Leads the Way on Fighting Voter Fraud
The Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS) was created by Governor Ron DeSantis to receive and investigate election-related complaints. In most cases, the Office subsequently refers the complaints to appropriate county or state law enforcement entities. A few days ago (January 15, 2024), the OECS issued its latest annual report.
Left-wing media will tell you that the agency did not find much fraud. Rather, it spent taxpayer funds to harass and confuse minority voters. But don’t believe it: the findings in the report are serious and disturbing.
In addition to investigations of people who voted when they were not qualified to do so, the Office expanded its quest to third-party voter registration organizations (known as 3PVROs) and to other organizations that have circulated fraudulent petitions, which “have plagued the state for years.”
Third-party registration organizations
About 1,900 third-party registration organizations operate in the state of Florida. Those entities operate mostly on the left side of the fence, and often with shady and illegal workers. Here is an example from the OECS Report: a collection agent, who was working for the Florida Democrat party and “Florida Rising Together,” submitted 1,460 forms to a Florida election office in the three months between 1/8/22 and 4/7/22. An alert election supervisor suspected that the voter applications were fraudulent based on a comparison of voter information on the forms with that on file. The matter was referred to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and is under active investigation.
Another third-party registrant is Hard Knocks Strategies, LLC. OECS has levied “multiple five-figure fines” on Hard Knocks “for wanton disregard of statutory obligations.” In addition, several of its agents have been arrested for falsifying registration applications in Lee and Charlotte Counties. Yet the organization seems to thrive.
Recently, the State Attorney’s Office found that Hard Knocks “conducts no or limited background checks” for agents “who are asked to handle sensitive information” — including names, birthdates, last four digits of Social Security numbers, and signature exemplars. One of the workers is a “fifteen-time convicted felon” who was temporarily out on bond related to two different charges. While out of jail, he issued numerous phony registrations.
Hard Knocks also tried to qualify over 2,900 voters by submitting registration forms after the statutory deadline. For this, it has paid nearly $50,000 in fines. Those fines would have been much higher were it not for statutory penalty caps in place at the time of the violations.
According to a LinkedIn account, Hard Knocks has over 3,000 employees. How does the organization pay for such a large payroll? Redbroward.com says that George Soros gave the left-wing registrant millions of dollars in recent years.
Here is how the Soros beneficiary describes itself:
Hard Knocks Strategies is the go-to integrated strategy firm in Florida for reaching, persuading and mobilizing communities of color. ... We are rooted in the communities we work with and are uniquely placed to identify, engage and motivate low-propensity voters.
I wonder what “persuading and mobilizing” entails, and how Hard Knocks manages to “motivate low-propensity voters.” Does it offer free raffle tickets, or coupons for free pizza? Just wondering.
But we should not pick on Hard Knocks. After all, it is just one of 1,900 similar organizations operating in Florida.
Fraudulent petitions related to constitutional initiatives
Like most states, amending the state constitution requires the circulation of petitions that must be signed by thousands of people within strict time frames. In recent months, Florida had about 18 constitutional initiatives, including the legalization of marijuana, the prohibition of abortion restrictions, clean water rights, and so-called voting rights (making it easier to vote and to cheat). Organizations on all sides of politics pay workers to round up the signatures necessary to get the initiative qualified. This is another area of potential abuse, according to Election Crimes Office:
During the last quarter of 2023, OECS and state election officials were inundated with an alarming amount of fraud related to constitutional initiative petitions. ...
In the last quarter of 2023 alone, OECS (from a single petition initiative), received and reviewed credible criminal allegations involving at least 32 individual paid petition circulators collecting and submitting petitions on behalf of the initiative. The allegations spanned at least 35 Florida counties and included over 1,500 Florida voters as potential victims of fraud/identity theft. ...
OECS believes this is the tip of the iceberg with respect to fraudulent activity taking place.
Keep in mind that most fraud is probably not even detected. And the fraud that is detected is not necessarily reported to the OECS. Some complaints are relayed directly to local law enforcement. Those complaints are not included in the agency’s report.
It is evident that the Florida election cops have their hands full in this never-ending battle with election fraudsters. But what about the states that don’t have dedicated election law enforcement? In those states, the complaints are mostly ignored by the career prosecutors who are located within deep-blue counties.
Governor Ron DeSantis has created a good model. Now it is up to leaders in the other states to use the Florida template to build their own election police forces. When they do, they may be shocked by what they find.
Joe Fried is an Ohio-based CPA who has performed and reviewed hundreds of certified financial audits. He is the author of Debunked? and a new book called How Elections Are Stolen. It outlines 23 problems that must be fixed before the 2024 elections. More information can be found at https://joefriedcpa.substack.com (Joe’s free Substack account).
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politics seems to be the model for Democratic Party politics these days as rage over Trump dominates. In California, ballot-harvesting has been adopted as a legal practice, in what's a straight-out cultural appropriation of Mexican politics. If the Democrats are planning to make themselves the "perfect dictatorship" along the PRI model of one-party rule, starting in California and taking that style national, well, the unhappy question is, what else are they borrowing from Mexican politics as they (without saying so, of course) borrow from the Mexican Model? Yes, it sounds far-fetched. But we also know how implacably angry the Democrats still are at the election of Donald Trump and how they like to get away with things.
As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate. Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in California history.
Kamala Harris Urges Illegal Migrants to Help Elect Joe Biden
NEIL MUNRO
Sen. Kamala Harris promised Sunday to reduce detention space for migrants as she asked an illegal immigrant activist to help Joe Biden win the election.
BLOG EDITOR: WHY DIDN’T LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS TELL THE ILLEGAL TO GO HOME??? SHE’S THE ONE WHO AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CA DECLARED THAT NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
“I’m undocumented … I can’t vote …What can we do during this election to help make sure that we get you elected?” asked Astrid Silva, who was brought into the United States as a child by her illegal migrant parents.
“You can tell people who can vote what life is like for you now, and what life can be like,” Vice President nominee Harris told the Nevada-based political organizer who runs the pro-amnesty Dream Big Nevada group, adding that:
We are committed to shutting down private detention centers and ending policies that have been about separating children from their parents at the border.
Harris’s comments may be a coded message to would-be illegal migrants and their supportive legal-immigrant relatives.
For example, if implemented, Harris’s promise to start “shutting down private detention centers” could cripple border enforcement. If the enforcement agency does not have commercial prisons to hold detainees prior to their asylum hearings, the agency would be forced to release waves of job-seeking migrants into the U.S. labor market.
Similarly, Harris’s promise to end “policies … about separating children” echoes the media-magnified demand by pro-migration activists that officials release migrant mothers and children when they cross the border. That demand would let migrant families freely travel to relatives — including their illegal migrant husbands and fathers — who are working illegally in the United States.
Last week in Nevada, I caught up with my friend @Astrid_NV, to discuss the Biden-Harris plan for immigration reform and how Dreamers can make a difference in this election.
If you're eligible to vote, show up at the ballot box for those who can't: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P. pic.twitter.com/knU2qFSYmn
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 1, 2020
Like Biden, Harris pushed the Cold War “Nation of Immigrants” claim, even though only about 10 percent of people in the United States are legal immigrants:
We want to have a president who understands we are a nation of immigrants. This is a country that was built and that has derived its strength from immigrants coming here over the generations.
Harris also tried to blur the legal and civic differences between illegal migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens. For example, she told Silva:
Define who you are, and you tell the world who you are. Don’t let anybody ever put you in a box because they have a limited perspective on who can do what and who can be one.
[…]
We are all in this together. And so, chin up, shoulders back, right? We speak our truth and know that there will always be people applauding and supporting that even if you can’t see them at that one moment, know that there are so many of us who are supporting your leadership and the power of your voice. It’s really important.
Harris also claimed President Donald Trump vilified immigrants: “We’ve seen under the current president the kind of vitriol, the kind of hate, the vilification of immigrants in such a horrible way.”
But a Washington Post poll showed in April that Latinos are the strongest advocates for a near-total halt to legal immigration during the coronavirus epidemic and economic crash.
Biden’s 2020 plan promises to “reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees,” wipe out Trump’s asylum reforms, bar any deportations for 100 days, and end migration enforcement against illegal aliens unless they commit a felony.
Joe Biden’s asylum and open-border policies will destroy the American middle class by releasing millions of foreign migrants into the United States, Stephen Miller told reporters October 28. https://t.co/BaeLSIud7y
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 28, 2020
Biden also wants to let companies import more visa workers, let mayors import temporary workers, and allow an unlimited flow of foreign graduates through U.S. universities into white-collar jobs. Biden would “exempt from any cap [the] recent graduates of Ph.D. programs in STEM fields.”
Biden also wants to accelerate the inflow of chain migration migrants and dramatically accelerate the inflow of poor refugees to at least 125,000 per year.
“The influx of low wage workers from all across the world will drive down incomes, drive down wages, deplete the middle class, bankrupt Social Security, bankrupt Medicare, bankrupt Medicaid, bankrupt federal entitlements, overcrowd schools, and overcrowd every hospital in the middle of a pandemic,” White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters on October 28.
“It is an assault on reason, it is an assault on law enforcement, and it’s an assault on the very idea of having a country, having a Republic,” Miller added. “This is not about left or right or Center. This is about between having a country, or not even having a country.”
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